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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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        United States of America
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        United Kingdom
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