Usually means: Move tail back and forth.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. wag: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wag: Merriam-Webster
  3. WAG, WAG, wag, wag: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wag, wag: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wag: Collins English Dictionary
  6. wag: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wag, wag: Wordnik
  8. WAG, wag: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. WAG, wag: Wiktionary
  10. wag: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. wag: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. wag: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. WAG: Dictionary.com
  14. wag (n.), wag (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. wag: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. WAG, Wag (company), Wag (disambiguation), Wag (district), Wag: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Wag: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. wag: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. wag: Rhymezone
  20. Wag: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. wag: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. WAG: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. wag: FreeDictionary.org
  24. wag: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. wag: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wag (province), wag: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. WAG: Netlingo
  2. SMS Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. wag: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. wag, wag, wag: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. WAG: Acronym Finder
  3. WAG: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. wag: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. wag, wag, wag, wag, wag, wag: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. w.a.g: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. WAG: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To swing from side to side, as an animal's tail, or someone's head to express disagreement or disbelief.
verb:  (UK, Australia, slang) To play truant from school.
verb:  (intransitive, chiefly obsolete) To go; to proceed; to move; to progress.
verb:  To move continually, especially in gossip; said of the tongue.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To leave; to depart.
verb:  (intransitive, cricket, slang) Of the tail (lower order of the batting lineup): to score more runs than expected.
noun:  An oscillating movement.
noun:  A witty person.
noun:  (informal, UK, Ireland) A wife or girlfriend of a sports star or other celebrity, originally and especially of an association football player.
noun:  (informal, business or military slang, US) A wild-assed guess; a rough estimate.

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