stag

noun

• 1a male deer, especially a male red deer after its fifth year.
• a turkeycock over one year old.

• 2 [usually as modifier] a social gathering attended by men only:a stag event
• chiefly North American a man who attends a social gathering unaccompanied by a female partner: they have a rule against stags

• 3 Stock Exchange, British a person who applies for shares in a new issue with a view to selling at once for a profit: stags made an average profit of £60 each

adverb

• without a female partner at a social gathering:a lot of boys went stag

verb (stags, stagging, stagged)

• 1 Stock Exchange, British buy (shares in a new issue) and sell them at once for a profit: they made profits from stagging each issue

• 2North American informal roughly cut (a garment, especially a pair of trousers) to make it shorter: (as adjective stagged)stagged jeans