sag

name

1. Acronym of Screen Actors Guild.

noun

1. Initialism of straight-acting gay.

phrase

1. Initialism of Saint Anthony guide.

verb

Etymology: From earlier sag, sagg, sack, from Middle English saggen, probably from Middle Low German sacken (“to sink, drift”), ultimately of North Germanic/Scandinavian/Old Norse origin, akin to Old Norse søkkva (“to sink”), from a denasalized derivative of Proto-Germanic *sinkwaną (“to sink”). Cognate with Scots seg (“to sink”), Danish sakke (“to lag behind”), Swedish sacka (“to lag”), Icelandic sakka (“to sink”), Faroese søkka (“to sink, drop down, descend, set”), Dutch zakken (“to fall, drop, sink”), German Low German sacken (“to sink”), and German sacken (“to sink”) (from Low German). Compare also Norwegian Nynorsk sagga (“to walk or move heavily and slowly”).

1. To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane.

   “A line or cable supported by its ends sags, even if it is tightly drawn.”

   “The floor of a room sags.”

2. To lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position.

   “A building may sag one way or another.”

   “The door sags on its hinges.”

3. To lose firmness, elasticity, vigor, or a thriving state; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced.

   “The mind I sway by, and the heart I bear, / Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.”

4. To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily.
5. To cause to bend or give way; to load.
6. To wear one's trousers so that their top is well below the waist.
7. To pull down someone else's pants as a prank.