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jag
1[ jag ]
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.
jag
2[ jag ]
noun
- a period of unrestrained indulgence in an activity; spree; binge:
a crying jag; a talking jag.
- a state of intoxication from liquor.
- Northern, North Midland, and Western U.S. a load, as of hay or wood.
J.A.G.
3abbreviation for
- Judge Advocate General.
jag
2/ dʒæɡ /
noun
- intoxication from drugs or alcohol
- a bout of drinking or drug taking
- a period of uncontrolled activity
a crying jag
Jag
3/ dʒæɡ /
noun
- informal.a Jaguar car: often understood as a symbol of affluence
JAG
4abbreviation for
- Judge Advocate General
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- jagless adjective
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Example Sentences
Lt. Commander Kevin Bogucki is a Navy JAG officer serving as defense counsel for enemy combatants detained at Guantanamo.
He returned to TV in Chicago Hope, before landing NCIS, a spinoff from JAG in 2003, playing Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs.
What you remember him from: Elliott played the lead in the military court procedural JAG for 10 seasons on CBS.
Second and more interesting was that weird jag he went on about Fast & Furious.
The result has been the most spectacular jag of growth in the region.
Thenceforth the innocents and near-innocents could get their perunaese jag only at the risk of a bad quarter of an hour.
We now began to put out the small traps at as good a "jag" as I was able to stand the travel.
The "jag" he developed was something phenomenal, and he was finally locked up in the Bastile by common consent.
I've been in many a jag myself, but that's not why I came out.
Maybe this virtuous jag'll get us some business for what it loses us.
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