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What (who) is shag - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Shag (dance); Shag (dance move); Shagging; The Shags; Shag-dancing; Shag (disambiguation); Shags; Shagged; Shagger; Shaggers; Shaggedly; Shagging (disambiguation); Shags (disambiguation); Shagger (disambiguation)
Shag
·adj Hairy; shaggy.
II. Shag ·noun Any species of cormorant.
III. Shag ·noun A kind of prepared tobacco cut fine.
IV. Shag ·noun Coarse hair or nap; rough, woolly hair.
V. Shag ·noun A kind of cloth having a long, coarse nap.
VI. Shag ·vt To make hairy or shaggy; hence, to make rough.
shag
(shags, shagging, shagged)
If someone shags another person, or if two people shag, they have sex together. (BRIT INFORMAL, RUDE)
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Shag is also a noun.
...a spy movie with car chases, a murder, a shag and a happy ending.
N-COUNT: usu sing
shag
shag1
¦ noun
1. a carpet or rug with a long, rough pile.
cloth with a velvet nap on one side.
2. a thick, tangled hairstyle.
3. coarse-cut tobacco.
Origin
OE sceacga 'rough matted hair', of Gmc origin; related to shaw2.
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shag2
¦ noun a cormorant with greenish-black plumage and a long curly crest in the breeding season. [Phalacrocorax aristotelis.]
?chiefly NZ any cormorant.
Origin
C16: perh. a use of shag1, with ref. to the bird's 'shaggy' crest.
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shag3 Brit.
vulgar slang
¦ verb (shags, shagging, shagged) have sex with.
¦ noun an act of sexual intercourse.
Derivatives
shagger noun
Origin
C18: of unknown origin.
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shag4
¦ noun a dance originating in the US, characterized by vigorous hopping from one foot to the other.
Origin
1930s: of obscure derivation; perh. from obs. shag 'waggle'.
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shag5
¦ verb Baseball chase or catch (fly balls) for practice.
Origin
early 20th cent.: of unknown origin.
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Shag
Shag, or Shagged, or Shagger, or Shagging, or Shags may refer to:
Examples of use of shag
1. Bridgets 1''7 paean to new Labour is matchless÷ Labour stands for the principle of sharing, kindness, gays, single mothers and Nelson Mandela as opposed to braying bossy men having affairs with everyone shag–shag–shag and going to the Ritz in Paris then telling all the presenters off on the Today programme.
2. And it is perfectly obvious that Labour stands for the principle of sharing, kindness, gays, single mothers and Nelson Mandela, as opposed to braying, bossy men having affairs with everyone, shag shag shag left right and centre, and going to The Ritz in Paris and telling all the presenters off on the Today programme.
3. Many Democrats resisted this makeover, preferring the orange shag and avocado appliances of unreconstructed liberalism.
4. His house keeps growing green shag carpeting and pink stucco walls, like his childhood California home.
5. We‘d learned how to wank, but we hadn‘t learned how to have a good shag.