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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.
EXPANDa rug or carpet with a thick, shaggy pile.
6.
COLLAPSEa coarse tobacco cut into fine shreds.
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Shags
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Origin:
before 1050; Old English sceacga (wooly) hair (not recorded in ME); cognate with Old Norse skegg beard; akin to shaw
before 1050; Old English sceacga (wooly) hair (not recorded in ME); cognate with Old Norse skegg beard; akin to shaw
Related forms
shag·like, adjective
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noun
1.
a small cormorant, Phalacrocorax aristotelis, of European coasts.
2.
any of several small cormorants of the Southern Hemisphere.
verb (used without object)
1.
to dance a step with a vigorous hopping on each foot.
noun
2.
this dance step.
verb (used with object), shagged, shag·ging.
Idiom1.
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.
4.
shag ass, Slang: Vulgar. to depart, especially hurriedly; get going.
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Word Origin & History
shag
"copulate with," 1788, probably from obs. verb shag (c.1380) "to shake, waggle," which probably is connected to shake (cf. shake, shake it in U.S. blues slang from 1920s, ostensibly with ref. to dancing).
EXPAND"And þe boot, amydde þe water, was shaggid." [Wyclif]Also the name of a dance popular in U.S. 1930s and '40s. The baseball verb meaning "to catch" (fly balls) is attested from 1913, of uncertain origin or connection to other senses of the word.
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shag (off) definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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