shag Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a strong coarse tobacco that has been shredded
  2. noun a matted tangle of hair or fiber
    • the dog's woolly shag
  3. noun a fabric with long coarse nap
    • he bought a shag rug
  4. noun slang for sexual intercourse
    ass; screw; piece of tail; fucking; shtup; screwing; fuck; roll in the hay; nookie; piece of ass; nooky.
  5. noun a lively dance step consisting of hopping on each foot in turn
  6. verb dance the shag

WordNet

Shag noun
Etymology
AS. sceacga a bush of hair; akin to Icel. skegg the beard, Sw. skägg, Dan. skjg. Cf. Schock of hair.
Definitions
  1. Coarse hair or nap; rough, woolly hair.
    True Witney broadcloth, with its shag unshorn. Gay.
  2. A kind of cloth having a long, coarse nap.
  3. (Com.) A kind of prepared tobacco cut fine.
  4. (Zoöl.) Any species of cormorant.
Shag adjective
Definitions
  1. Hairy; shaggy. Shak.
Shag transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Shagged ; present participle & verbal noun Shagging
Definitions
  1. To make hairy or shaggy; hence, to make rough.
    Shag the green zone that bounds the boreal skies. J. Barlow.
    (Sport) To chase, as (a) to chase and return balls hit out of bounds. (b) (Baseball) to catch fly balls for practise.

Webster 1913