Meaning

Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc..

Definitions by Sense

1. Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.
2. Coarse shredded tobacco.
3. A type of rough carpet pile.
4. (UK, Ireland, archaic) Bacon or fat, especially if with some remaining hair or bristles.
5. (UK, Ireland, archaic) A roughly-cut or torn-off piece of bread or cheese.
6. (often attributive) A deliberately messy, shaggy hairstyle.
7. (transitive) To make hairy or shaggy; to roughen.
8. (intransitive, obsolete) To hang in shaggy clusters.

Example Sentences

Nor ſhould it prove thy leſs important Care, / To chuſe a proper Coat for Winter's Wear. / [...] / True Witney Broad-cloath with it's Shag unſhorn, / Unpierc'd is in the laſting Tempeſt worn: [...]

He was rather unshaven as well and smelt strongly of shag.

The Captain folded his brow into a look of intense perplexity. 'You seem exceedingly spry for a man who demolished an entire bottle of brandy and better part of an ounce of shag in a single evening.' 'And very nice too,' said the tramp. 'Now as to breakfast?'

But it is a braw elemental sphere this o' ours, for here's a good queich o' claret for ye, an' a shag o' butter-an'-bread.

romancing Shelley between / sips of thermos tea and / yeasty shags of bread, sour-sweet, / from Lizzie Coutinho’s bakery.

There was that hair salon on Yonge Street called House of Lords. On a Saturday – nowadays you can't even imagine it – but imagine a hair salon having a lineup outside of people wanting to get a shag haircut.

He saw the pine its daring mantle rear, / Break the rude blast, and mock the brumal year / Shag the green zone that bounds the boreal skies, / And bid all southern vegetation rise.

And long curld locks that downe his shoulders shag

Word Forms

• shags
• shagging
• shagged
• more shag
• most shag
• shack

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