What does this word "shag" mean?

Question

What does this word "shag" mean?

Answer 1

shag

1. Coarse hair or nap; rough, woolly hair. "True Witney broadcloth, with its shag unshorn." (g*y)

2. A kind of cloth having a long, coarse nap.

3. A kind of prepared tobacco cut fine.

4. <zoology> Any species of cormorant.

Source: Websters Dictionary

Answer 2

- A bird

- A dance

- Slang for sexual intercourse

- A tangle or mass

Answer 3

type of bird  

Answer 4

Type of seabird.

Answer 5

1.  A tangle or mass, especially of rough matted hair.

2.

a. A coarse long nap, as on a woolen cloth.

b. Cloth having such a nap.

3. A rug with a thick rough pile.

4. Coarse shredded tobacco.

tr.v. shagged, shag·ging, shags

To make shaggy; roughen.

Answer 6

1. A strong coarse tobacco that has been shredded.

2. A matted tangle of hair or fiber; "the dog's woolly shag".

3. A fabric with long coarse nap; "he bought a shag rug".

4. Slang terms for sexual intercourse.

5. A lively dance step consisting of hopping on each foot in turn.

Food & Agriculture

A primitive, more or less unregulated method of cyclical cultivation, still widely practised in the tropics, whereby cultivators cut some or all of the tree crop, burn it, and raise agricultural crops for one or more years before moving on to another site and repeating the process.

Industry:

Ordinary napped cloth.

The  Common Shag , Phalacrocorax aristotelis, is a member of the cormorant family of seabirds. It breeds around the coasts of western and southern Europe and north Africa, mainly wintering in its breeding range except for northernmost birds. In Britain it is usually referred to as the Shag; in scientific literature it is sometimes called the European Shag.

Shag is a slang for term having s*x in British English.

Shag is a form of swing dance. The two most common variations are the Carolina Shag and the Collegiate Shag.

Shag is the name for some birds of the cormorant family. Originally used for the European or Common Shag Phalcrocorax aristotelis, it is now used for most cormorants in New Zealand, and is likely to be used for any bird in the family that has a crest.

Shag refers to the pile of a carpet

Shaggy means having long, especially untidy, hair or fur.

A Shaggy dog story is an improbable tale.

Shag is an early dance, contemporary with Lindy hop.

Non-English Usage: "Shag" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (shag), Manx (cormorant, shag), Portuguese (shag).

Screenplays:



I've been desperate for a shag but watching him suffer was just too much fun (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge)

Should we shag now or should we shag later (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery; writing credit: Mike Myers)

You'll be in love till it kills you both. You'll fight, you'll shag and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

I need a shag. (This Life; writing credit: Joe Ahearne; Amelia Bullmore)

Take me to a place where the drugs are free, the clubs have no gravity and every shag guarantees an o****m (Human Traffic; writing credit: Justin Kerrigan)

Movie/TV Titles:

Reshayushchij shag (1966)

Shag (1989)

Answer 7

i) a sea bird

ii) a type of cut of tobacco

iii) it descvribes the length (rather depth) of a carpet

iv) a slang term for s*x (English)

Answer 8

It's a type of seabird with a messy shaggy set of feathers.  Kind of like you get if you shook / shaked (where the word is reported to have come from) and also the vernacular which the first answerer referred to.

Answer 9

It's either a bird, a carpet/rug or s*x. Depending on the context. E.g. "Fancy a shag?" is not likely to mean "How would you feel about owning a bird?"

Answer 10

It's a type of pipe tobacco, a sea bird, and a slang word for copulation.

Answer 11

Shag can mean one of two things:

A black and white sea bird

A way of describing the pile on a carpet.

Answer 12

Inyorkshire it means two things

To have s*x

or 'mate' some old skoolers say 'ya alright shag'

strange but true

FS

Answer 13

Ask your mother, she's incredibly experienced.

Answer 14

It used to be a type of dance, then it referred to carpet pile length, now it seems to be to have s*x.

Answer 15

a rough or course mass, a carpet with a lomg rough pile, and to ' bone '