shag1 /Êæg/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[shag] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, verb, shagged, shag·ging.
–noun 1. rough, matted hair, wool, or the like.
2. a mass of this.
3. a 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.
4. a cloth with a nap, as of silk or a heavy or rough woolen fabric.
5. a rug or carpet with a thick, shaggy pile.
6. a coarse tobacco cut into fine shreds.
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object) 7. to make or become rough or shaggy.
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[Origin: bef. 1050; OE sceacga (wooly) hair (not recorded in ME); c. ON skegg beard; akin to shaw]
—Related forms
shaglike, adjective
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shag3 /Êæg/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[shag] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation verb, shagged, shag·ging, noun
–verb (used without object) 1. to dance a step with a vigorous hopping on each foot.
–noun 2. this dance step.
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[Origin: 1350–1400; perh. var. of shog]
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shag4 /Êæg/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[shag] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–verb (used with object), shagged, shag·ging. 1. to chase or follow after; pursue.
2. to go after and bring back; fetch.
3. Baseball. to retrieve and throw back (fly balls) in batting practice.
—Idiom4. shag ***, Slang: Vulgar. to depart, esp. hurriedly; get going.
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[Origin: 1930–35; orig. uncert.; see shack2]
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n.
A tangle or mass, especially of rough matted hair.
A coarse long nap, as on a woolen cloth.
Cloth having such a nap.
A rug with a thick rough pile.
Coarse shredded tobacco.
tr.v. shagged, shag·ging, shags
To make shaggy; roughen.
[Middle English *shagge, from Old English sceacga, matted hair.]
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n. A dance step of the 1930s consisting of a hop on each foot in turn.
intr.v. shagged, shag·ging, shags
To perform or execute this dance.
[Origin unknown.]