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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.
a rug or carpet with a thick, shaggy pile.
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Shag
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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.
Idioms 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.
4.
shag ass, Slang: Vulgar. to depart, especially hurriedly; get going.
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shag1 (ʃæɡ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a matted tangle, esp of hair, wool, etc |
| 2. | a napped fabric, usually a rough wool |
| 3. | shredded coarse tobacco |
| —vb , shags, shagging, shagged | |
| 4. | (tr) to make shaggy |
| [Old English sceacga; related to sceaga | |
| shag2 (ʃæɡ) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a cormorant, esp the green cormorant (Phalacrocorax aristotelis) |
| 2. | slang (Austral) like a shag on a rock abandoned and alone |
| [C16: special use of | |
| shag3 (ʃæɡ) | |
| —vb (often foll by out; usually passive) , shags, shagging, shagged | |
| 1. | to have sexual intercourse with (a person) |
| 2. | to exhaust; tire |
| —n | |
| 3. | an act of sexual intercourse |
| 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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Word Origin & History
shag
1592, "cloth having a velvet nap on one side," from O.E. sceacga "rough matted hair or wool," cognate with O.N. skegg "beard," from P.Gmc. *skagjan, perhaps related to O.H.G. scahho "promontory," with a connecting sense of "jutting out, projecting." Of tobacco, "cut in fine shreds," it is recorded from
1789; of carpets, rugs, etc., from 1946. Shagbark as a type of hickory is from 1751. Shaggy is attested from c.1590 (earlier shagged, O.E.); shaggy-dog story first recorded 1945.
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).
"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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Slang Dictionary
shag (off) definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Example sentences
My grandfather's study is carpeted with white shag, which feels woolly against my bare feet.
The carpet in question has a low cut, tightly woven pile as distinguished from a shag type pile carpet.
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