Usually means: Thick pile rug or carpet.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. shag: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. shag, shag, shag, shag, shag: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shag, shag, shag, shag, shag: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shag: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shag: Vocabulary.com
  6. shag: Wordnik
  7. shag: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. shag: Wiktionary
  9. shag: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. shag: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. shag: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. shag: Dictionary.com
  13. shag (n.), shag (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. 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
  15. Shag: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. shag: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. shag: Rhymezone
  18. Shag: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. shag: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. 'Shag: Britih-American Dictionary
  21. shag: Free Dictionary
  22. shag: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. shag: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. shag: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. 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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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.

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