English Dictionary

shag

/ʃæɡ/

noun

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.

I need to clean the shag carpet in the living room.

意味（1）

Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.

Nor ſhould it prove thy leſs important Care, / To chuſe a proper Coat for Winter's Wear. / … / True Witney Broad-cloath with it's Shag unſhorn, / Unpierc'd is in the laſting Tempeſt worn: …

意味（2）

Coarse shredded tobacco.

He was rather unshaven as well and smelt strongly of shag.

意味（3）

A type of rough carpet pile.

意味（4）

(UK, archaic) Bacon or fat, especially if with some remaining hair or bristles.

意味（5）

(UK, archaic) A roughly-cut or torn-off piece of bread or cheese.

But it is a braw elemental sphere this o' ours, for here's a good queich o' claret for ye, an' a shag o' butter-an'-bread.

意味（6）

(often attributive) A deliberately messy, shaggy hairstyle.

There was that hair salon on Yonge Street called House of Lords. On a Saturday – nowadays you can't even imagine it – but imagine a hair salon having a lineup outside of people wanting to get a shag haircut.