jag

IPA: dʒˈæg

A sharp projection.
A part broken off; a fragment.
A flap, a tear in a clothing
(botany) A cleft or division.
(Scotland) A medical injection, a jab.
(Western Pennsylvania, dialectal) A thorn from a bush (see jaggerbush).
Enough liquor to make a person noticeably drunk; a skinful.
A binge or period of overindulgence; a spree.
A fit, spell, outburst.
A one-horse cart load, or, in modern times, a truck load, of hay or wood.
(Scotland, archaic) A leather bag or wallet; (in the plural) saddlebags.
(informal) A Jaguar car.
(Western Pennsylvania, dialectal, derogatory) Ellipsis of jagoff.: An irritating, inept, or repugnant person. [(derogatory, dialectal, Western Pennsylvania) An irritating, inept, or repugnant person.]
(law, military) Acronym of judge advocate general.

Examples of "jag" in Sentences

A "jag," be it known, means primarily a load, secondarily a "load," or
He had set his mind on a "jag" of the worst description -- to drink and forget.
The "jag" he developed was something phenomenal, and he was finally locked up in the Bastile by common consent.
In southern Ohio, and in the mountain districts of West Virginia the "---- jag" was a standard form of intoxication.
Jag skiter i allt annat, jag lovar jag svär jag vill ha dig i min famn, höra alla dina andetag jag vill vara till hjälp när du känner dej
They shut their eyes and literally feel what is going on -- see pistols flashing, as the man, with a well-developed Texas "jag," sees keyholes in the door at 3 o'clock G.M. -- just legions of them.
Making Forty Mile with a view to dissipating his newly found wealth in a gormandizing "jag," he sent the settlers in that ramshackle camp into wild excitement by producing nuggets of a size hitherto unmatched.
The old time ---- was condemned by the United States Government as an intoxicant and stimulant, and cures were sold in various parts of the country for the ---- "jag," yet in the new advertisement the following appears:
Since I’m on a bit of a word-coining jag of late, I should note that the scintillating Laure has improved upon my tag for a literary phenomenon I’d long dubbed “Paul Auster Syndrome,” offering the far more concise Austerism.