shagverb [ I or T ]
uk/ʃæɡ/us/ʃæɡ/-gg-shag verb [ I or T ] (SEX)
UK offensive to have sex with someone
shag verb [ I or T ] (BASEBALL)
US to catching a hit baseball, or to pick up balls that have been used in a practice:
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Baseball & rounders
- backstop
- ball
- ballgame
- base hit
- batting average
- bunt
- catcher
- curveball
- double
- glove
- groundout
- home run
- infielder
- peg
- pitcher
- screwball
- sock
- southpaw
- stuff
- the World Series
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shagadjective [ before noun ]
uk/ʃæɡ/us/ʃæɡ/(of a carpet) made of long thick threads:
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Carpets, rugs & other floor coverings
- bath mat
- carpet
- carpeted
- carpeting
- doormat
- fitted carpet
- fitter
- linoleum
- mat
- matting
- parquet
- Persian rug
- pile
- rug
- scatter rug
- underlay
- wall-to-wall
- welcome mat
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shagnoun
uk/ʃæɡ/us/ʃæɡ/shag noun (SEX)
[ C ] UK offensive an act of having sex, or a sexual partner
shag noun (EFFORT)
[ S ] UK slang an activity that needs a lot of effort or causes small problems
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Complicated and difficult to do
- advanced
- ambitious
- another
- arduous
- as much as you can do idiom
- fiddly
- fiendish
- fierce
- formidable
- get blood out of/from a stone idiom
- murky
- painstaking
- picnic
- problematic
- punishing
- rigorous
- uphill
- vexed
- wearing
- wearying
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shag noun (BIRD)
[ C ] a large sea bird that has dark feathers, a long neck and body, and a curved beak
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Birds found by or on the sea
- albatross
- cormorant
- curlew
- fulmar
- gannet
- guillemot
- gull
- penguin
- petrel
- plover
- puffin
- seagull
- skua
- tern