dag

IPA: dˈæg

A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground.
A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
A skewer.
A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
(obsolete) A dagger; a poniard.
(obsolete) A kind of large pistol.
The unbranched antler of a young deer.
(Australia slang, derogatory) One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd.
(Australia slang, New Zealand, obsolete) An odd or eccentric person; someone who is a bit strange but amusingly so.
(graph theory) A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V,E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V.
A misty shower; dew.
(chiefly Ireland) Pronunciation spelling of dog. [A mammal of the family Canidae:]
Initialism of deputy attorney general.
(computer science, mathematics) Initialism of directed acyclic graph. [(graph theory, computer science) A finite directed graph that contains no directed cycles.]
(US, law) Initialism of Defense Acquisition Guide.
(biochemistry) Initialism of diacylglycerol. [(organic chemistry) diglyceride]

To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.
(obsolete, or dialectal) To sully; to make dirty; to bemire.
(transitive) To skewer food, for roasting over a fire
(transitive) To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags
(UK, dialect) To be misty; to drizzle.

Examples of "dag" in Sentences

I thought so --- then leave a comment, dag nab it!
By dag in Everything Else on Nov 5, 2009 at 7: 30 am
"I'm a dreadful ` 80s kind of dag, a child of that era," she said.
Frank and Dean, in an improvisational routine, started calling each other 'dag'.
When Kerry isn't being a total dag, his meta view of Australian cricket is very insightful.
Altai, Galsan Tschinag has written, comes from ala, multi-coloured, and dag, mountain.
(Frank used to call his buddies of Italian-American heritage the nickname 'dag', 4 shortened version of 'dago', which to Frank meant paisano.)
I felt like a bit of a dag but then the lovely Ryan from the George Eastman House said it was also a title he'd wanted to use and that made me feel better.
And if you were Benji's age, you'll remember the party at the roller rink, the Apple II+, the Tears for Fears video and the way everybody said "dag," a word expressive of such complex emotion that you couldn't possibly articulate its meaning.
Even though Frank had used the phrase 'dag' for years as a short version of 'dago' when he was bonding with fellow Italian Americans, Joey -- who had recently been lauded for his defence of Italian Americans on The Jack Paar Show -- became offended and left.