SHAG, noun 1. Coarse hair or nap, or rough wooly hair. True Witney broadcloth, with its shag unshorn. Gay. 2. A kind of cloth having a long coarse nap. 3. In orinthology, an aquatic fowl, the Pelecanus graculus; in the north of England called the crave. SHAG, adjective Hairy; shaggy. SHAG, verb transitive 1. To make rough or hairy. Shag the green zone that bounds the boreal skies. J. Barlow. 2. To make rough or shaggy; to deform.
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