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adjective

having ragged notches, points, or teeth; zigzag: the jagged edge of a saw; a jagged wound.

having a harsh, rough, or uneven quality.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English. See jag¹, -ed²

Related forms

jag·ged·ly, adverb

jag·ged·ness, noun

un·jag·ged, adjective

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the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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Example Sentences

And dangling upside down from a bungee cord over jagged cliffs is, face it.

Large swaths of the state are also jagged and mountainous, with mountaintops frequently obscured by clouds.

It has towering cliffs, jagged ridges, and deep valleys.

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And dangling upside down from a bungee cord over jagged cliffs is, face it.

Large swaths of the state are also jagged and mountainous, with mountaintops frequently obscured by clouds.

It has towering cliffs, jagged ridges, and deep valleys.

Jagged fronds of tropical ferns once growing in muddy swamps are pressed between jet-black layers of coal.

Salmon and steelhead make annual runs up rivers that flow all four directions from these jagged peaks.

The jagged wound was inflicted in a suicide attempt.

Deaths due to state-based conflicts show jagged peaks in the two world wars, followed by a bumpy but consistent trailing-off.

The jagged edge mixes the airflow coming out of the jet engine in a way that reduces turbulence.

The shark flashed a jagged smile of ivory saw teeth and then slipped back into the sea.

The jagged spikes in the new pictures appear to be made from ice and rock thrown up by meteorite impacts billions of years ago.

Out of the jagged hole hangs the blade of a propeller.

The first winter snow was falling on the jagged peaks that towered up on all sides.

Researchers also do not know what causes the jagged structure of lightning.

The colors don't match the originals, and the jagged edges don't line up.

We painstakingly sliced a three inch piece off the fork, cutting slowly enough as to not create any jagged edges.

Extreme temperatures turn the jagged canyons into summer ovens and winter freezers.

With each stroke, his hands and arms struck the jagged wood strewn through the water, while his injured leg dragged along behind.

Both place visitors in the heart of the high country, amid jagged peaks and wildflower meadows.

The shark is gray or brownish with spots, and its top jaw has jagged cusped teeth and the bottom comb shaped.

Our view through a jagged hole in the wall looks out on the city.

Jagged mountain ranges, crescent-shaped sandy beaches and pastel.

In the dry season, when the river is low, boats must dodge endless jagged reefs and shifting sandbars.

Once the seal comes up, the bear will spring and sink its jagged teeth into the seal's head.

He still has the jagged spot on his right hand where she got him.

They drove him to the hospital screaming, the jagged pink protrusion covered discreetly by a towel.

She had trudged through the jagged mountains in winter for nearly two weeks with her grandmother, brother, and three sisters.

Swervedriver's jagged axes and psy-fi lyricism helped endow so-called shoegaze with its increasing credibility.

Even some of the cutting from one scene to the next makes it look a bit jagged.

Erosion later scoured the more jagged summits into their present profiles.

Its mathematical representations become jagged rather than smooth.

Its jagged forms are above public zones, including a.

The morning after, as anyone who has suffered a hangover knows, can be filled with jagged edges.

Likewise, a stiff toe cup will keep you from totaling your toes on underwater rocks or other jagged edges.

The trunk lock was sealed crudely with a jagged piece of metal and four screws, suggesting a break-in.

Suddenly, a jagged bolt of lightning strikes the saguaro.

Some are all sharp corners and jagged edges, some rounded.

It was a long pathway of dovetailing jagged shapes of cheap carpet that progressed from color to black and white.

Black plates were cut by jagged cracks of orange, violently shifting and roiling.

He has a baby face, a bear's body, and a jagged tattoo swirling up his leg.

Its eyes were deep amber and its tail large and creamy with a jagged dark line cutting across.

Not far beneath the surface, jagged towers of coral tore into the ship's hull and held the vessel fast.

The cape has been washed into jagged teeth of solid rock by countless millennia of winter waves.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

a sharp projection on an edge or surface.

verb (used with object)

to cut or slash, especially in points or pendants along the edge; form notches, teeth, or ragged points in.

verb (used without object)

to move with a jerk; jog.

Origin:
1350–1400; late Middle English jagge (noun), jaggen (v.), of obscure origin

Related forms

jag·less, adjective

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World English Dictionary

jagged (ˈdʒæɡɪd)

—*adj*
	having sharp projecting notches; ragged; serrate

'jaggedly

—*adv*

'jaggedness

—n

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Word Origin & History

jag

"period of unrestrained activity," 1887, Amer.Eng. from sense "load of hay or wood" (1597), of unknown origin, used in U.S. colloquial speech from 1834 to mean "a quantity, a lot."

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jagged

1440, from obs. verb jaggen (1373) "to notch or nick," Scot. and northern English, of unknown origin. Originally of garments with regular "toothed" edges; meaning "with the edge irregularly cut" is from 1577.

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Slang Dictionary

jag definition

n.
a Jaguar automobile. : What I really want is a jag.
n.
a drinking bout; a prolonged state of alcohol or drug intoxication. : Is he off on another jag, or is this the same one?
n.
a prolonged state of emotional excess, especially crying. : I've been on a jag and can't get my work done. , Is she still on her crying jag?
n.
a drug rush. (Drugs.) : This stuff has no jag at all.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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jagged definition

mod.
alcohol intoxicated. : Man, is that chick jagged!

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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