shag

1. 1.

   dance the shag

   Broaderdance

Other forms of shag

plural

shags·

past tense or participle

shagged

present participle

shagging

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about shag

What does shag mean?

shag means "a strong coarse tobacco that has been shredded". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shag?

shag has 1 syllable: shag. In IPA it is /ˈʃæɡ/.

What is another word for shag?

Close synonyms include fuck, fucking, screw, screwing, ass. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shag a common word?

shag is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.