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Meanings of jag in English

A flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing.

Usage of jag in English
1
Just scratched herself up with a paper clip, on some freaky jag.
The Girls
2
There was a screeching blue jag of light and a frying noise.
The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
3
He gets an overnight jag, and is surly all the next day.
Burned Bridges
4
Then, when it finally went in, you got this big crying jag.
The Sirens of Titan
5
Somebody on a telephone jag, I thought, though she didn't sound drunk.
The long saturday night
6
One decides to lie down on table, and other gets crying jag.
The new yorker
7
Flummers tapped his forehead and replied: The brain predominates the jag.
The Colossus: A Novel
8
A place to keep the material before it becomes a jag.
The Silly Syclopedia / A Terrible Thing in the Form of a Literar...
9
Then, almost inevitably, a jag of light flashed across his vision.
The Departure
10
I took on this jag for your especial benefit, said he.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
11
Saw a jag of bone, mud and straw in the wound.
Crooked letter, crooked letter
12
That's usually after a couple of margaritas and a laughing jag.
Is it just me?: or is it nuts out there?
13
Shakespeare never got on a crying jag at the Mermaid Tavern?
The illuminatus! trilogy
14
Why, Nan, Billy has sat up nights pulling Hank Lolly through a jag.
Green Valley
15
I've got a spending jag on, and I've never been Christmas shopping before.
The Man in Lonely Land
16
She retches, and with a shocking motion a jag snaps from her mouth.
The Scar
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Jag through the time
Jag across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common