stag
IPA: stˈæg
noun
- (countable) An adult male deer, especially a red deer.
- (countable, chiefly Scotland) A young horse (colt or filly).
- (by extension, countable, obsolete) A romping girl; a tomboy.
- (countable) An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox).
- (countable, finance) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
- (countable, finance) One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.
- (countable, usually attributive) An unmarried man; a bachelor; a man not accompanying a woman at a social event.
- (countable) A social event for men held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom; sometimes a fundraiser.
- (countable, slang) An informer.
- (uncountable, UK, military, slang) Guard duty.
- (countable) A stag beetle (family Lucanidae).
- (countable) The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.
verb
- (intransitive, Britain) To act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks.
- (transitive) To watch; to dog, or keep track of.
adverb
- Of a man, attending a formal social function without a date.
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Examples of "stag" in Sentences
- Then the stag appeared on the scene.
- An hour goes by, with no sign of the stag.
- Animals sacred to Freyr included the stag and the boar.
- Bachelor parties are also known as stag nights or stag parties.
- In 1983, they would face Baste in the Finals and they stopped the Stags.
- Bending both legs in a stag jump is sometimes called a double stag jump.
- The stag and the boar fade away, and soon the woman regains consciousness.
- There is a way to provoke the dryad into turning the hero into a white stag.
- Unlike the others, however, Tyolet follows the hound all the way to the stag.
- The stag and other docile animals in this position are often termed springing.
- The huntsman brings in older, experienced hounds, called "tufters," to separate the stag from the herd.
- Some of the chapters in that section involve game theory, and one of them covers the game known as the stag hunt.
- As the word a stag is the name of a single complex idea; but the word stags by a change of termination adds to this
- "It is no shame for me," said Credhe, "I to die for grief after Cael, since the stag is shortening his life sorrowing after the hind."
- What happens to the stag is that the huntsman walks over to it and prosaically shoots it in the head with a special short-barreled, folding-stock shotgun.
- Once the stag is solitary, the huntsman's assistant, the "whipper-in," is supposed to bring up the full pack, and the hunt's members and guests fall in behind the hounds.
- The stag is taken to the kennel and skinned, and all the meat cut into small pieces and put again into the hide, and the hounds then, in this cold-blooded way, rush at a mess, instead of the whole pack, in a state of excitement, falling on the hunted animal reeking with fatigue.