shag
IPA: ʃˈæg
noun
- Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.
- Coarse shredded tobacco.
- A type of rough carpet pile.
- (UK, archaic) Bacon or fat, especially if with some remaining hair or bristles.
- (UK, archaic) A roughly-cut or torn-off piece of bread or cheese.
- (often attributive) A deliberately messy, shaggy hairstyle.
- Any of several species of sea birds in the family Phalacrocoracidae (cormorant family), especially the common shag or European shag, Phalacrocorax aristotelis, found on European and African coasts.
- (dance, sometimes capitalized) A swing dance.
- (slang, vulgar) An act of sex.
- (slang, vulgar) A casual sexual partner.
- (Northwestern Ontario) A fundraising dance in honour of a couple engaged to be married.
- (West Country) Friend; mate; buddy.
verb
- (transitive) To make hairy or shaggy; to roughen.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To hang in shaggy clusters.
- (intransitive) To shake, wiggle around.
- (UK, Ireland, transitive, vulgar slang) To have sex with.
- (UK, Ireland, intransitive, vulgar slang) To have sex.
- (India, transitive, vulgar slang) To masturbate.
- To chase after; especially, to chase after and return (a ball) hit usually out of play.
- (dance, uncommon) To perform the dance called the shag.
adjective
- (obsolete) Hairy; shaggy.
- (Singapore, slang) Alternative form of shack (“exhausted”) [(Singapore, slang) Exhausted, worn out, extremely tired.]
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