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shag1

Pronunciation: /ʃag/
Definition of shag

noun

  • 1 [usually as modifier] a carpet or rug with a long, rough pile:wall-to-wall shag carpet
  • [as modifier] (of a pile) long and rough:a shag pile
  • [mass noun] cloth with a velvet nap on one side.
  • 2a thick, tangled hairstyle or mass of hair: her hair was cut short in a boyish shag [as modifier]:a shag cut
  • 3 (also shag tobacco) [mass noun] a coarse kind of cut tobacco.

Origin:

late Old English sceacga 'rough matted hair', of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse skegg 'beard' and shaw2

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Definition of shag in the US English dictionary
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