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Meanings of shag in English

Wikidata

Fine-cut tobacco to make self-made cigarettes by hand.

Portuguese
foda
Catalan
clau
Spanish
casquete

Slang for sexual intercourse.

foda

To take part in sexual activity (most commonly sexual intercourse) with another person for the purposes of sexual pleasure.

Usage of shag in English
1
And I got to ask if Bond would ever shag a bloke.
The Guardian
2
Two sleepy German shepherds were inside curled on scraps of shag carpet.
Anthropology of an american girl: a novel
3
But the lips, beneath the shag of grey beard, were tightly compressed.
The Night Horseman
4
Susan, for example, decided to pick hot pink shag carpet for her room.
Wired
5
On an average day I can look like a shag carpet.
Norway to hide: a passport to peril mystery
6
The equipment was scattered across the shag carpet, linked by cables.
Wired
7
They didn't give them a chance, a caution or shag all.
The Irish Times
8
An older couple with identical shag haircuts sat on Avalyn's left.
Mysterious Skin
9
Tom Rogan, meanwhile, moved across the shag rug toward his wardrobe.
IT
10
The lamp thudded as it landed on the red shag carpet.
Audrey's door
11
The shag rug in the living room is totally kaput-cigaretteburns, beer, whiskey.
The stand
12
More of the orange shag remnants were caught up in the sticky liquid.
Caught
13
Small curls of orange shag, like thin Cheetos, littered the floor.
Caught
14
The gold ram skin sailed through the air like a glittering shag Frisbee.
The Sea of Monsters
15
We ended up havin a shag and it was fuckin lovely.
Fresh
16
He showed me photos, a shag, like we had back in the sixties.
The brush-off: a hair-raising mystery
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