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UK
/ʃˈæɡ/
]
[ US /ˈʃæɡ/ ]
[ US /ˈʃæɡ/ ]
VERB
- dance the shag
NOUN
- a strong coarse tobacco that has been shredded
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a fabric with long coarse nap
he bought a shag rug - a lively dance step consisting of hopping on each foot in turn
- slang for sexual intercourse
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a matted tangle of hair or fiber
the dog's woolly shag
How To Use shag In A Sentence
- From here, the nullah reaches the Punjab and Haryana boundary, near Shagun Hotel, where the outflow is now blocked.
- He had brown eyes and a thatch of thick, shaggy brown hair.
- The sun set about ten o'clock, and Lady Clare and Shag greeted its last departing rays with a whinny, accompanied by a wanton kickup from the rear -- for whatever Boyhood in Norway
- Saber-toothed cats, mastodons, giant sloths, woolly rhinos, and many other big, shaggy mammals are widely thought to have died out around the end of the last ice age, some 10,500 years ago.
- The white guy was closer to sixty than to fifty, and his shaggy white-blond hair was shot with grey, and he'd given up trying to hide the bald spot on top.
- Albatrosses, petrels, shags and shearwaters glide merrily around, all because of continental shelves and currents that slope and converge and form a giant feeding ground for these stars of the sea.
- With a mane of shaggy white hair and beard, he looked like the archetypal wild old man of the woods.
- The pony was old, and had been Asa's own for three years, ever since Asa's older brother, Oberon, had handed him down when he had grown out of the shaggy brown pony.
- The carpet appeared to be yellow shag, which felt cool when Iroka swung her feet off the bed and onto the floor.
- However, the ratio of sandeels to gadids found in the Shag gizzards did not change over time, suggesting that diets and rates of otilith loss in gizzards were not noticeably different over the month.