shag
verb
- to chase and catch fly balls in baseball
noun
- type of carpet
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈʃæɡ/ / /ˈʃeɪ̯ɡ/
adj
Etymology: From shagged or shagged out, originally British colloquialisms.
- Exhausted, worn out, extremely tired.
“I suppose they could not really blame us for feeling so shack after doing PT, drill and other boring lessons in the morning.”
- Tough and exhausting.
noun
Etymology: Unknown.
- Friend; mate; buddy.
“I'm fcuked then mate. Born and bred sarf london and the missarse is a brummie. Oh and her old man is a scouser!!¶ You all still sound like a bunch of inbreds though but it's better than the Hereford accent "alright shag where you be"”
“I was going down the stairs to get my bike when I ran into Jim Mudd coming up. "Alright shag?" he said like we were best mates.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English schaggen, a variant of Middle English schoggen (“to shake; shake off; tremble”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a byform of Middle English schokken (“to shake; move rapidly”), related to Middle Low German schokken (“to shake; tremble”). Alternatively, perhaps ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *skakkōn (“to shake”), specifically continuing a post-Proto-Germanic variant *skagg-, where the non-singular stem *skag- caused the analogical replacement of the stem-final voiceless geminate consonants with voiced geminates, which was then leveled throughout the paradigm.
- To shake, wiggle around.
- To have sex with.
“Every time since has been a disaster. Our sex life always has been. After k.b.ing me for ages, she’d eventually let me shag her.”
“‘You never got so much as a bit of tit in three months, and I shagged her first week!’”
- To have sex.
“I'm not pregnant! I have shagged and shagged and shagged and all the little bastards missed!”
- To masturbate.
- To chase after; especially, to chase after and return (a ball) hit usually out of play.
“Chris is off somewhere in the darkness, but I'm not going to shag after him.”
“When a White Sox scout spotted him shagging flies on a Milwaikee^([sic]) sandlot, and asked Felsch if he'd like to come to Chicago, Hap decided that that might be fun, too.”
- To perform the dance called the shag.
“Showman Monte Proser tried to cash in on the boom on a mass basis with his Dance Carnival in Madison Square Garden, where dancers lindy hopped, shagged and fox-trotted to the orchestras of Benny Goodman, Larry Clinton and Charlie Barnett[…]”