shagSHAG, n. 1. Coarse hair or nap, or rough wooly hair. True Witney broadcloth, with its shag unshorn. Gay. 2. A kind of cloth having a long coarse nap. 3. In orinthology, an aquatic fowl, the Pelecanus graculus; in the north of England called the crave. SHAG, a. Hairy; shaggy.
SHAG, v.t. 1. To make rough or hairy. |