Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc. / Coarse shredded tobacco. / A type of rough carpet pile. / (UK, archaic) Bacon or fat, especially if with some remaining hair or bristles.

(transitive) To make hairy or shaggy; to roughen. / (intransitive, obsolete) To hang in shaggy clusters.

(obsolete) Hairy; shaggy.

Several species of sea birds in the family Phalacrocoracidae (cormorant family), especially the common shag or European shag, Phalacrocorax aristotelis, found on European and African coasts.

(intransitive) To shake, wiggle around. / (UK, Scotland, Ireland, transitive, vulgar slang) To have sexual intercourse with. / (intransitive, vulgar slang) To have sexual intercourse.

(dance, sometimes capitalized) A swing dance. / (slang, vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse. / (slang, vulgar) A casual sexual partner.

(Northwestern Ontario) A fundraising dance in honour of a couple engaged to be married.

(West Country) Friend; mate; buddy.

plural of shag

present participle of shag