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WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
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Shag

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Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Shag has 5 senses

Verb Shag has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

Shagn. [AS. sceacga a bush of hair; akin to Icel. skegg the beard, Sw. skägg, Dan. skjg. Cf. Schock of hair.].
  •  Coarse hair or nap; rough, woolly hair.  [1913 Webster]
    "True Witney broadcloth, with its shag unshorn."  [1913 Webster]
  •  A kind of cloth having a long, coarse nap.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A kind of prepared tobacco cut fine.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Any species of cormorant.  [1913 Webster]
Shaga. 
     Hairy; shaggy.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
Shagv. t. 
     To make hairy or shaggy; hence, to make rough.  [1913 Webster]
    "Shag the green zone that bounds the boreal skies."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Shag, n.
1 a rough growth or mass of hair etc.
2 a coarse kind of cut tobacco.
3 a cormorant, esp. the crested cormorant, Phalacrocorax aristotelis.

Shag, v.tr. (shagged, shagging) coarse sl.

Usage
Usually considered a taboo word.
1 have sexual intercourse with.
2 (usu. in passive; often foll. by out) exhaust; tire out.
Etymology
18th c.: orig. unkn.

THESAURUS

Shag

Burley, Cuban, Havana, Havana seed, Latakia, Maryland, Russian, Turkish, Virginia, bright, bring, bring back, bristle, call for, canaster, capillament, chase after, cilium, coat, crop, feel, fetch, fetch and carry, finish, fleece, flue-cured, fur, get, go after, go and get, go fetch, go for, go get, go to get, grain, granular texture, hair, head, head of hair, horsehair, indentation, knub, leaf, locks, lugs, mane, mat, mop, nap, nub, obtain, pelt, pick up, pile, pit, plug tobacco, pock, procure, protuberance, pubescence, pubic hair, retrieve, run after, seconds, secure, setula, shock, structure, surface, surface texture, texture, thatch, tresses, wale, weave, woof, wool

ROGET THESAURUS

Shag

Roughness

N roughness, tooth, grain, texture, ripple, asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity, arborescence, pilosity, brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet, fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi, lovelock, beaucatcher, curl paper, goatee, papillote, scalp lock, plumage, plumosity, plume, panache, crest, feather, tuft, fringe, toupee, wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down, byssus, moss, bur, fluff, knot (convolution), rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted, rugged, rugose, rugous, knurly, asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn, craggy, cragged, crankling, scraggy, prickly, arborescent, leafy, well-wooded, feathery, plumose, plumigerous, laciniate, laciniform, laciniose, pappose, pileous, pilose, trichogenous, trichoid, tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute, crinose, crinite, bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged, fringed, befringed, setous, setose, setaceous, like quills upon the fretful porcupine, rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear, downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly, lanate, lanated, lanuginous, lanuginose, tomentose, fluffy, against the grain, cabello luengo y corto el seso.

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