Shag (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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.
  6. a coarse tobacco cut into fine shreds.
verb (used with or without object), shagged, shag·ging.
  1. to make or become rough or shaggy.
noun
  1. a small cormorant, Phalacrocorax aristotelis, of European coasts.
  2. any of several small cormorants of the Southern Hemisphere.
verb (used without object), shagged, shag·ging.
  1. to dance a step with a vigorous hopping on each foot.
noun
  1. this dance step.
verb (used with object), shagged, shag·ging.
  1. to chase or follow after; pursue.
  2. to go after and bring back; fetch.
  3. to retrieve and throw back (fly balls) in batting practice.
Idioms
  1. to depart, especially hurriedly; get going.
verb (used with or without object)
  1. to have sexual intercourse (with): He was caught shagging his friend’s sister.Sorry, but I don’t shag with just anyone.
noun
  1. an act or instance of sexual intercourse: It’s been a while since I’ve had a shag.
  2. a sexual partner, or a person considered as a sexual object: I bet she’d be a good shag.
noun
  1. a matted tangle, esp of hair, wool, etc
  2. a napped fabric, usually a rough wool
  3. shredded coarse tobacco
verb shags, shagging or shagged
  1. to make shaggy
noun
  1. a cormorant, esp the green cormorant (Phalacrocorax aristotelis)
  2. abandoned and alone
verb shags, shagging or shagged
  1. to have sexual intercourse with (a person)
  2. to exhaust; tire
noun
  1. an act of sexual intercourse
Shag (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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