Shag

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A tangle or mass, especially of rough matted hair.
  • n. A coarse long nap, as on a woolen cloth.
  • n. Cloth having such a nap.
  • n. A rug with a thick rough pile.
  • n. Coarse shredded tobacco.
  • v. To make shaggy; roughen.
  • n. A dance step of the 1930s consisting of a hop on each foot in turn.
  • verb-intransitive. To perform or execute this dance.
  • n. Either of two marine birds (Phalacrocorax aristotelis or P. punctatus) of Europe and North Africa, related to the cormorant.
  • v. To chase and bring back; fetch.
  • v. Baseball To chase and catch (fly balls) in practice.
  • v. To engage in sexual intercourse with.
  • verb-intransitive. To engage in sexual intercourse.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.
  • n. Coarse shredded tobacco.
  • n. A type of rough carpet pile.
  • v. To make hairy or shaggy; to roughen.
  • n. 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.
  • v. To shake, wiggle around.
  • v. To have sexual intercourse with.
  • v. To masturbate.
  • v. To chase after; especially : to chase after and return (a ball) hit usually out of play
  • n. A swing dance.
  • n. An act of sexual intercourse.
  • n. A casual sexual partner.
  • n. A fundraising dance in honour of a couple engaged to be married.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Coarse hair or nap; rough, woolly hair.
  • n. A kind of cloth having a long, coarse nap.
  • n. A kind of prepared tobacco cut fine.
  • n. Any species of cormorant.
  • adj. Hairy; shaggy.
  • v. To make hairy or shaggy; hence, to make rough.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Rough matted hair, wool, or the like.
  • n. Hence The nap of cloth, especially when long and coarse.
  • n. Any cloth having a long nap.
  • n. A strong tobacco cut into fine shreds.
  • Rough and coarse; hairy; shaggy.
  • Made of the cloth called shag.
  • To roughen or make shaggy: used chiefly in the past participle.
  • To hang in or form shaggy clusters.
  • n. In ornithology, a cormorant; especially, the crested cormorant, or scart, Phalacrocorax graculus, of Europe, so called in Great Britain.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a lively dance step consisting of hopping on each foot in turn
  • v. dance the shag
  • n. slang for sexual intercourse
  • n. a strong coarse tobacco that has been shredded
  • n. a fabric with long coarse nap
  • n. a matted tangle of hair or fiber
  • Verb Form
    shagged    shagging    shags   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    shagged    shagging   
    Form
    shagged    shagging    shaggy    shagginess   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    hairy    shaggy    shock    nap    sexual intercourse   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ag    Bragg    ag    bag    bagge    brag    dag    drag    fag    flag   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    deep-pile    shoulder-length    wall-to-wall    Berber    beige    black-tipped    brocaded    bearskin    plush    magenta