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Definitions for Shag

[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.
[7] to make or become rough or shaggy.
[8] a small cormorant, Phalacrocorax aristotelis, of European coasts.
[9] any of several small cormorants of the Southern Hemisphere.
[10] to dance a step with a vigorous hopping on each foot.
[11] this dance step.
[12] to chase or follow after; pursue.
[13] to go after and bring back; fetch.
[14] Baseball . to retrieve and throw back (fly balls) in batting practice.
[15] a matted tangle, esp of hair, wool, etc
[16] a napped fabric, usually a rough wool
[17] shredded coarse tobacco
[18] (tr) to make shaggy
[19] a cormorant, esp the green cormorant (Phalacrocorax aristotelis )
[20] like a shag on a rock Australian slang abandoned and alone
[21] to have sexual intercourse with (a person)
[22] (tr often foll by out; usually passive ) to exhaust; tire
[23] an act of sexual intercourse

Words related to Shag

only, unattended, tapestry, carpeting, mat, cigarette, crop, smoking, fly, shoot, rush, travel, dash, race, jog, sprint, falter, pull, lag, chase

Words nearby Shag

shaft grave, shaft horsepower, shaft house, shaftesbury, shafting, shag, shaganappi, shagbark, shaggable, shagged, shaggy

Origin of Shag

41930–35; origin uncertain; see shack2

Other words from Shag

shag·like , adjective

Word origin for Shag

C20: of unknown origin

Synonyms for Shag

only, unattended, solo, unaccompanied, abandoned, batching it, by itself/oneself, companionless, deserted, desolate, detached, forlorn, forsaken, friendless, hermit, in solitary, individual, isolated, lone, lonely, lonesome, me and my shadow, me myself and I, on one's own, onliest, single, sole, solitary, stag, traveling light, unaided, unassisted, unattached, unescorted, unmarried, widowed