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shag

1

[ shag ]

noun

  1. rough, matted hair, wool, or the like.
  2. a mass of this.
  3. a hairdo in which hair is cut in slightly uneven, overlapping layers downward from the crown, sometimes with the hair at the front and back hairlines left longer or wispier than the rest.
  4. a cloth with a nap, as of silk or a heavy or rough woolen fabric.
  5. a rug or carpet with a thick, shaggy pile.
  6. a coarse tobacco cut into fine shreds.

verb (used with or without object)

, shagged, shag·ging.
  1. to make or become rough or shaggy.

shag

2

[ shag ]

noun

  1. a small cormorant, Phalacrocorax aristotelis, of European coasts.
  2. any of several small cormorants of the Southern Hemisphere.

shag

3

[ shag ]

verb (used without object)

, shagged, shag·ging.
  1. to dance a step with a vigorous hopping on each foot.

noun

  1. this dance step.

shag

4

[ shag ]

verb (used with object)

, shagged, shag·ging.
  1. to chase or follow after; pursue.
  2. to go after and bring back; fetch.
  3. Baseball. to retrieve and throw back (fly balls) in batting practice.

shag

5

[ shag ]

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to have sexual intercourse (with): Sorry, but I don’t shag with just anyone.

    He was caught shagging his friend’s sister.

    Sorry, but I don’t shag with just anyone.

noun

  1. an act or instance of sexual intercourse:

    It’s been a while since I’ve had a shag.

  2. a sexual partner, or a person considered as a sexual object:

    I bet she’d be a good shag.

shag

1

/ ʃæɡ /

noun

  1. a cormorant, esp the green cormorant ( Phalacrocorax aristotelis )
  2. like a shag on a rock slang.
    abandoned and alone

shag

2

/ ʃæɡ /

noun

  1. a matted tangle, esp of hair, wool, etc
  2. a napped fabric, usually a rough wool
  3. shredded coarse tobacco

verb

  1. tr to make shaggy

shag

3

/ ʃæɡ /

verb

  1. to have sexual intercourse with (a person)
  2. troften foll byout; usually passive to exhaust; tire

noun

  1. an act of sexual intercourse

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Usage

Though still likely to cause offence to many older or more conservative people, this word has lost a lot of its shock value of late. It seems to have a jocular, relaxed connotation, which most of the other words in this field do not. No doubt its acceptability has been accelerated by its use in the title of an Austin Powers film. Interestingly, though advertisements for the film caused a large number of complaints to the British Advertising Standards Authority, they were not upheld

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Other Words From

  • shaglike adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of shag1

First recorded before 1050; Old English sceacga “(wooly) hair” (not recorded in Middle English ); cognate with Old Norse skegg “beard”; akin to shaw

Origin of shag2

First recorded before 1560–70; perhaps special use of shag 1, applied first to bird's crest

Origin of shag3

First recorded in 1350–1400; perhaps variant of shog

Origin of shag4

First recorded in 1930–35; origin uncertain; shack 2

Origin of shag5

First recorded in 1780–90; origin unknown

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Word History and Origins

Origin of shag1

C16: special use of shag 1, with reference to its crest

Origin of shag2

Old English sceacga; related to sceaga shaw 1, Old Norse skegg beard, skagi tip, skōgr forest

Origin of shag3

C20: of unknown origin

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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. shag ass, Slang: Vulgar. to depart, especially hurriedly; get going.

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Example Sentences

At any rate, as soon as Lady Clare reappeared in the meadow Shag's cup of bliss seemed to be full.

Lady Clare, seeing Shag killed by the blow which had been intended for herself, felt her blood run cold.

Led away by his sympathy Shag bent his head down toward her and thereby prevented her from rising.

It took Lady Clare several months to accustom Shag (for that was the colt's name) to her ways.

This was a privilege which Shag could not fail to appreciate, though she never offered to return the favor by clawing him.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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