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shag

ʃæg
WordNet
A castle surrounded by water. On the left, smoke is coming from a shag toe. Front right four figures on a bridge. Top left: CLXXXIIII. At the bottom right in the margin a borax canister as a signature of Hondius.
A castle surrounded by water. On the left, smoke is coming from a shag toe. Front right four figures on a bridge. Top left: CLXXXIIII. At the bottom right in the margin a borax canister as a signature of Hondius.
  1. (v) shag
    dance the shag
  2. (n) shag
    a lively dance step consisting of hopping on each foot in turn
  3. (n) shag
    slang for sexual intercourse
  4. (n) shag
    a fabric with long coarse nap "he bought a shag rug"
  5. (n) shag
    a matted tangle of hair or fiber "the dog's woolly shag"
  6. (n) shag
    a strong coarse tobacco that has been shredded
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Shag
    A kind of cloth having a long, coarse nap.
  2. Shag
    (Com) A kind of prepared tobacco cut fine.
  3. Shag
    (Zoöl) Any species of cormorant.
  4. Shag
    Coarse hair or nap; rough, woolly hair. "True Witney broadcloth, with its shag unshorn."
  5. Shag
    Hairy; shaggy.
  6. Shag
    To make hairy or shaggy; hence, to make rough. "Shag the green zone that bounds the boreal skies."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) shag
    Rough matted hair, wool, or the like.
  2. (n) shag
    Hence The nap of cloth, especially when long and coarse.
  3. (n) shag
    Any cloth having a long nap.
  4. (n) shag
    A strong tobacco cut into fine shreds.
  5. shag
    Rough and coarse; hairy; shaggy.
  6. shag
    Made of the cloth called shag.
  7. shag
    To roughen or make shaggy: used chiefly in the past participle.
  8. shag
    To hang in or form shaggy clusters.
  9. (n) shag
    In ornithology, a cormorant; especially, the crested cormorant, or scart, Phalacrocorax graculus, of Europe, so called in Great Britain. It is smaller than the common cormorant, when adult of a rich dark glossy green varied with purple and bronze, and in the breeding season has the head crested with bundles of long curly plumes.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Shag
    shag woolly hair: cloth with a rough nap: a kind of tobacco cut into shreds
  2. (adj) Shag
    rough, hairy
  3. (v.t) Shag
    to roughen, make shaggy
  4. (v.i) Shag
    (Spens.) to hang in shaggy clusters
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary AS. sceacga, a bush of hair; akin to Icel. skegg, the beard, Sw. skägg, Dan. skjg,. Cf. Schock of hair

Usage in the news

Beach music and the Carolina Shag dance phenom still carry a lot of weight in North Carolina. indyweek.com

Steve Rogers, a shag enthusiast, kicks up his heels to The Holiday Band in Burlington. indyweek.com

The Spy Who Shagged Me. rollingstone.com

Did Maroon 5 Frontman Shag Sharapova. observer.com

The Washington Nationals's first overall draft pick took batting practice and shagged balls in the outfield before the team's first full-squad workout. ashingtonpost.com

Steeplechase, a low-pile semi-shag nylon that pairs up with the brighter Inspiration collection of textured shags. hometextilestoday.com

Super Shag is a nylon carpet with threads in varying widths and textures and in myriad colors. nytimes.com

The cast of The Vampire Diaries plays Shag, Marry, Stake. bastropenterprise.com

If so, they'll witness a type of dancing called the Carolina Shag. vgazette.com

More than 40 accessories, including shag carpet for the dash top, allow customization. chicagotribune.com

Ah those fabulous 60s.climb into our VW Microbus with the 8 track player and the shag carpet. eagle969.com

Just when you thought it was safe to break out the sunscreen, shag bag and patio furniture. dailypress.com

When Clean Care of New England President Ernest Pullano started a Providence carpet-cleaning business in 1984, red wine on a light shag carpet qualified as a major cleanup. pbn.com

Or when you run a lawnmower over shag carpeting. sojo1049.com

White Shag set to rock Toledo. toledofreepress.com

Usage in scientific papers

The restriction homomorphism Rep(G∨ ) → Rep(ZG (g )∨) and the Smith homomorphism SHAG ⊗Z Fp → SHAZG (g) ⊗Z Fp are compatible with each other under Satake.
Smith theory and geometric Hecke algebras

Sat(G, R) is a categorification of the spherical Hecke algebra, with a monoidal structure that lifts the algebra structure on SHAG .
Smith theory and geometric Hecke algebras

In that case π0 (G) = π0 (G(K)) acts on SHAG◦ ,k and the invariant subring is SHAG,k .
Smith theory and geometric Hecke algebras

The Satake isomorphism identifies SHAG,k with the representation ring Rep(G∨ ) of the Langlands dual group to G∨ .
Smith theory and geometric Hecke algebras

If ̟ is a subgroup of order p in G and k has characteristic p then it turns out the Smith homomorphism maps SHAG,k to SHAZG (̟);k .
Smith theory and geometric Hecke algebras

Usage in literature

The Jew there appears in a "purple shag gown," and prescribes balm-leaves. "The Haunters & The Haunted" by Various

I'd rather it had been shag! "The Social History of Smoking" by G. L. Apperson

Over it peered Whittle's little keen ones, spectacled under a gray shag of eyebrows. "An Alabaster Box" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley

Shag turned his massive head and watched the nervous Dog-Wolf with heavy, tired eyes. "The Outcasts" by W. A. Fraser

Flocks of shags, or cormorants, also visited the bay at the same time. "The Wreck of the Nancy Bell" by J. C. Hutcheson

We've got about a couple of pound of strong shag and a few ounces o' gold we can loan you. "To Win or to Die" by George Manville Fenn

The thought of Shag Bunce reminded him of the handsome private car he had seen upon the track that morning. "The Man of the Desert" by Grace Livingston Hill

The white ash, the shag bark, the black cherry, will have become abundant. "Old Mackinaw" by W. P. Strickland

A name given on the coast of Sussex to the shag or cormorant. "The Sailor's Word-Book" by William Henry Smyth

I don't shag kindling for any Dago! "Jim Spurling, Fisherman" by Albert Walter Tolman

Usage in poetry
Decay and silence sadly drape
The vigorous limbs of oldest trees,
The rotting leaves and rocks whose knees
Are shagged with moss, with misty crape.
"A November Sketch" by Madison Julius Cawein Author object (456)
MY shag-hair Cyclops, come, let's ply
Our Lemnian hammers lustily.
By my wife's sparrows,
I swear these arrows
Shall singing fly
Through many a wanton's eye.
"Vulcan's Song: In Making Of The Arrows" by John Lyly
Hushed the bird-voices and the hum of bees,
In the thin grass the crickets pipe no more;
But still the squirrel hoards his winter store,
And drops his nut-shells from the shag-bark trees.
"A Day" by John Greenleaf Whittier Author object (377)
And Katherine's smile was pleasant, and Katherine's temper good,
And how she come to like Tom Smith, I never understood;
For she was a mornin'-glory, as fair as you ever see,
And Tom was a shag-bark hickory, as green as green could be.
"Out O’ The Fire" by William McKendree Carleton Author object (712)
Well now, look at our villa! stuck like the horn of a bull
Just on a mountain-edge as bare as the creature's skull,
Save a mere shag of a bush with hardly a leaf to pull!
—I scratch my own, sometimes, to see if the hair's turned wool.
"Up at a Villa--Down in the City" by Robert Browning Author object (563)