Usually means: Casual, often messy, layered hairstyle.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. shags: Merriam-Webster
  2. shags: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shags: Collins English Dictionary
  4. shags: Vocabulary.com
  5. Shag's, Shags, shags: Wordnik
  6. shags: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. shags: Wiktionary
  8. shags: Dictionary.com
  9. Shags: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. shags: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shags: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shags: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shags: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shags [Shagies], shags: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shag)

noun:  Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.
noun:  Coarse shredded tobacco.
noun:  A type of rough carpet pile.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, archaic) Bacon or fat, especially if with some remaining hair or bristles.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, archaic) A roughly-cut or torn-off piece of bread or cheese.
noun:  (often attributive) A deliberately messy, shaggy hairstyle.
verb:  (transitive) To make hairy or shaggy; to roughen.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To hang in shaggy clusters.
adjective:  (obsolete) Hairy; shaggy.
noun:  Any of several species of sea birds in the family Phalacrocoracidae (cormorant family), especially a common shag or European shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis), found on European and African coasts.
verb:  (intransitive) To shake, wiggle around.
verb:  (UK, Ireland, transitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex with.
verb:  (UK, Ireland, intransitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex.
verb:  (India, transitive, slang, vulgar) To masturbate.
verb:  To chase after; especially, to chase after and return (a ball) hit usually out of play.
verb:  (dance, uncommon) To perform the dance called the shag.
noun:  (dance, sometimes capitalized) A swing dance.
noun:  (slang, vulgar) An act of sex.
noun:  (slang, vulgar) A casual sexual partner.
noun:  (Northwestern Ontario) A fundraising dance in honour of a couple engaged to be married.
noun:  (West Country) Friend; mate; buddy.
adjective:  (Singapore, Singlish, slang) Exhausted, worn out, extremely tired.
adjective:  (Singapore, Singlish, slang, of an activity) Tough and exhausting.
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