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stag

  [stag] ,noun, verb, stagged, stag⋅ging, adjective, adverb
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–noun
1. an adult male deer.
2. the male of various other animals.
3. a man who attends a social gathering unaccompanied by a woman.
4. Informal. stag party.
5. a swine or bull castrated after maturation of the sex organs.
6. British. a speculator who buys securities of a new issue in the hope of selling them quickly at a higher price.
–verb (used without object)
7. Informal. (of a man) to attend a social function without a female companion.
–adjective
8. of or for men only: a stag dinner.
9. intended for male audiences and usually pornographic in content: a stag show.
–adverb
10. without a companion or date: to go stag to a dance.
Origin:
1150–1200; ME stagge; akin to ON steggi, steggr male bird (> E (north dial.) steg gander), Icel steggur male fox, tomcat

Related forms:
staglike, adjective
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Slang Dictionary
stag

  1. mod.
    having to do with someone going to a party without a date. (Originally said of a male.) : A bunch of the guys got together and went stag to the dance.
  2. mod.
    having to do with a gathering for men only. : The party is stag, so Tom and I are going together.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

stag 
c.1185, probably from O.E. *stagga "stag," from P.Gmc. *stag- (see sting). The O.N. equivalent was used of male foxes, tomcats and dragons and the Gmc. root word probably originally meant "male animal in its prime." Meaning "pertaining to or composed of males only" (stag party) is Amer.Eng. slang from 1848. Stag film "pornographic movie" is attested from 1968.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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