SHAG (shagged, shagging)

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Irregular inflected forms: shagged    , shagging   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does shag mean? 

• SHAG (noun)
  The noun SHAG has 5 senses:

1. a strong coarse tobacco that has been shredded

2. a matted tangle of hair or fiber

3. a fabric with long coarse nap

4. slang for sexual intercourse

5. a lively dance step consisting of hopping on each foot in turn

  Familiarity information: SHAG used as a noun is common.

• SHAG (verb)
  The verb SHAG has 1 sense:

1. dance the shag

  Familiarity information: SHAG used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHAG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A strong coarse tobacco that has been shredded

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("shag" is a kind of...):

baccy; tobacco (leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A matted tangle of hair or fiber

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Context example:

the dog's woolly shag

Hypernyms ("shag" is a kind of...):

tangle (a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven)

Derivation:

shaggy (used of hair; thick and poorly groomed)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A fabric with long coarse nap

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

he bought a shag rug

Hypernyms ("shag" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

Holonyms ("shag" is a part of...):

shag rug (a rug with long pile)

Derivation:

shaggy (having a very rough nap or covered with hanging shags)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Slang for sexual intercourse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

ass; fuck; fucking; nookie; nooky; piece of ass; piece of tail; roll in the hay; screw; screwing; shag; shtup

Hypernyms ("shag" is a kind of...):

carnal knowledge; coition; coitus; copulation; intercourse; relation; sex act; sexual congress; sexual intercourse; sexual relation (sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur)

Domain usage:

dirty word; filth; obscenity; smut; vulgarism (an offensive or indecent word or phrase)

argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))

Sense 5

Meaning:

A lively dance step consisting of hopping on each foot in turn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("shag" is a kind of...):

social dancing (dancing as part of a social occasion)

Derivation:

shag (dance the shag)

• SHAG (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dance the shag

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "shag" is one way to...):

dance; trip the light fantastic; trip the light fantastic toe (move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue shag

Derivation:

shag (a lively dance step consisting of hopping on each foot in turn)

 Context examples 

With these he constructed a sort of Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front of him.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I reached this one,” said my friend, “by sitting upon five pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The pipe was still between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of shag which I had seen upon the previous night.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half-and-half, two fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but whose biographies I was compelled to listen to.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)