Usually means: Thick pile rug or carpet.
Definitions Related words Phrases (New!) Mentions Lyrics History
We found 42 dictionaries that define the word shag:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. shag: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shag: Merriam-Webster
  3. shag, shag, shag, shag, shag: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shag, shag, shag, shag, shag: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shag: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shag: Vocabulary.com
  7. shag: Wordnik
  8. shag: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. shag: Wiktionary
  10. shag: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shag: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shag: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shag: Dictionary.com
  14. shag (n.), shag (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Shag (British Slang), Shag (Josh Agle), Shag (artist), Shag (bird), Shag (disambiguation), Shag (fabric), Shag (film), Shag (haircut), Shag (hairstyle), Shag (tobacco), Shag, The Shag, The shag: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Shag: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. shag: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. shag: Rhymezone
  19. Shag: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. shag: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. 'Shag: Britih-American Dictionary
  22. shag: FreeDictionary.org
  23. shag: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. shag: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. shag: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. Shag: World Wide Words

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Dance (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shag (bird): Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shag (British Slang), Shag (bird), Shag (dance), Shag (dance move), shag: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Shag (British Slang), Shag (bird), Shag (dance), Shag (dance move), shag: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SHAG: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. shag: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shag, shag, shag, shag, shag, shag, shag, shag, shag: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. shag: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shag: Chapters in the Sky

(Note: See shagged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
)
American English Definition British English Definition
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.

Similar:

Opposite:

Types:

Phrases:

Adjectives:



Word origin

Words similar to shag

Usage examples for shag

Idioms related to shag

Wikipedia articles (New!)

Popular adjectives describing shag

Popular nouns described by shag

Words that often appear near shag

Rhymes of shag

Invented words related to shag

Similar:

Opposite:

Types:

Phrases:

Adjectives:



Writing poetry or lyrics? You can find related words that match a given meter.
This feature is permanently available from the "Related words" tab and from the Thesaurus.



List phrases that spell out shag 




Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus   Datamuse   Word games   Spruce   Feedback   Dark mode   Help


Threepeat

Find common ground

Play Now

Compound Your Joy

Find connection

Play Now

Pandergram

Make alphabet soup

Play Now