Definition of STALAG

stalag

Plural: stalags

Noun

  • A German prisoner-of-war camp, particularly during WWII.
  • A German prisoner-of-war camp, especially in World War II.
  • A genre of Nazi exploitation Holocaust pornography in Israel that flourished in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Examples

  • stalag fiction; a stalag novel
  • The STALAG of unplayable letters in his rack felt like a true confinement.

Origin / Etymology

Borrowing from German Stalag (“POW camp”), short for German Stammlager (“base camp”), from German Stamm (“stem, base”) + Lager (“lair, camp”).

Scrabble Score: 7

stalag: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
stalag: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
stalag: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

stalag: valid Words With Friends Word