stag
noun /stæɡ/
/stæɡ/
Idioms - a male deer compare buck, doe, hartTopics Animalsc2Oxford Collocations DictionaryStag is used before these nouns:
- party
Word OriginMiddle English (as a noun): related to Old Norse steggr ‘male bird’, Icelandic steggi ‘tomcat’.
Idioms
go stag
- (North American English, old-fashioned, informal) (of a man) to go to a party without a partner