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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024shag1 /ʃæg/USA pronunciation n. - [uncountable] rough, matted hair, wool, etc.
- Clothing[countable] a hairstyle in which the hair is cut in layers downward from the crown.
- Textiles[countable] a kind of carpeting or rug with long, loose yarns.
shag4 /ʃæg/USA pronunciation v. [~ + object], shagged, shag•ging. - to go after and bring back;
fetch. - Sportto retrieve and throw back (fly balls) in batting practice.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024shag1 (shag),USA pronunciation n., v., shagged, shag•ging. n. - rough, matted hair, wool, or the like.
- a mass of this.
- Clothinga hairdo in which hair is cut in slightly uneven, overlapping layers downward from the crown, sometimes with the hair at the front and back hairlines left longer or wispier than the rest.
- Textilesa cloth with a nap, as of silk or a heavy or rough woolen fabric.
- Textilesa rug or carpet with a thick, shaggy pile.
- a coarse tobacco cut into fine shreds.
v.t., v.i. - to make or become rough or shaggy.
- bef. 1050; Old English sceacga (wooly) hair (not recorded in Middle English); cognate with Old Norse skegg beard; akin to shaw
shag′like′, adj. shag2 (shag),USA pronunciation n. - Birdsa small cormorant, Phalacrocorax aristotelis, of European coasts.
- Birdsany of several small cormorants of the Southern Hemisphere.
- perh. special use of shag1, applied first to bird's crest 1560–70
shag3 (shag),USA pronunciation v., shagged, shag•ging, n. v.i. - to dance a step with a vigorous hopping on each foot.
n. - this dance step.
- perh. variant of shog 1350–1400
shag4 (shag),USA pronunciation v.t., shagged, shag•ging. - to chase or follow after;
pursue. - to go after and bring back;
fetch. - Sport[Baseball.]to retrieve and throw back (fly balls) in batting practice.
- shag ass, Slang (vulgar). to depart, esp. hurriedly;
get going.
- 1930–35; origin, originally uncertain; see shack2
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: shag /ʃæɡ/ n - a matted tangle, esp of hair, wool, etc
- a napped fabric, usually a rough wool
- shredded coarse tobacco
Etymology: Old English sceacga; related to sceaga shaw1, Old Norse skegg beard, skagi tip, skōgr forest shag /ʃæɡ/ n - a cormorant, esp the green cormorant (Phalacrocorax aristotelis)
- like a shag on a rock ⇒ Austral slang abandoned and alone
Etymology: 16th Century: special use of shag1, with reference to its crest shag /ʃæɡ/ Brit slang vb (shags, shagging, shagged)- to have sexual intercourse with (a person)
- (transitive) often followed by out; usually passive: to exhaust; tire
n - an act of sexual intercourse
Etymology: 20th Century: of unknown origin |