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Is shag a Scrabble word?

Yes, shag is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 8 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of shag?

Definition

noun (English)

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

2. (UK, Ireland, archaic) A roughly-cut or torn-off piece of bread or cheese.Examples: "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."; "romancing Shelley between / sips of thermos tea and / yeasty shags of bread, sour-sweet, / from Lizzie Coutinho’s bakery."IrelandUKarchaiccountableuncountable

3. (often attributive) A deliberately messy, shaggy hairstyle.Examples: "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."Synonyms: shaggy cutattributivecountableoftenuncountable

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To make hairy or shaggy; to roughen.Examples: "He saw the pine its daring mantle rear, / Break the rude blast, and mock the brumal year / Shag the green zone that bounds the boreal skies, / And bid all southern vegetation rise."transitive

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To hang in shaggy clusters.Examples: "And long curld locks that downe his shoulders shag"intransitiveobsolete

adj (English)

1. (obsolete) Hairy; shaggy.Examples: "Son. Thou liest, thou shag-hair'd villain!"obsolete

verb (English)

1. (intransitive) To shake, wiggle around.Synonyms: jiggle, rock, tremble, jiggle, quake, shag, shake, trembleintransitive

2. (UK, Ireland, transitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex with.Examples: "Every time since has been a disaster. Our sex life always has been. After k.b.ing me for ages, she’d eventually let me shag her."; "‘You never got so much as a bit of tit in three months, and I shagged her first week!’"; "I can kick this stuff any time I like. I tell you what. Get this week over, we'll go to a health farm for ten days. No drugs. No drink. And shag ourselves silly. How about that?"Synonyms: Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoy, feague, go in untoIrelandUKslangtransitivevulgar

3. (UK, Ireland, intransitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex.Examples: "I'm not pregnant! I have shagged and shagged and shagged and all the little bastards missed!"Synonyms: approach, cohabit, company, copulate, couple, engage in sex, exchange flesh, have intimate relationsIrelandUKintransitiveslangvulgar

4. (India, transitive, slang, vulgar) To masturbate.Synonyms: bash one out, bate, beat it, beat off, crank one out, fap, frig, jack offIndiaslangtransitivevulgar

5. (dance, uncommon) To perform the dance called the shag.Examples: "Showman Monte Proser tried to cash in on the boom on a mass basis with his Dance Carnival in Madison Square Garden, where dancers lindy hopped, shagged and fox-trotted to the orchestras of Benny Goodman, Larry Clinton and Charlie Barnett[…]"uncommon

noun (English)

1. (dance, sometimes capitalized) A swing dance.Examples: "Its evolutionary course is unclear; however, by the late thirties, Shag was all the rage both on and off college campuses. It became so popular, in fact, that a 1937 New York Times article describes it as “the fundamental dance step for swing.”"capitalizedsometimes

2. (slang, vulgar) An act of sex.Examples: "They were in the midst of an intense snog, his tongue down her throat as he tried to work out if he wanted another shag before she left for the night, when an odd noise sounded from behind the door of 2B."; "“And feel free to come over anytime you'd like a drink and a shag. […]"; "He could say yes, then just quietly leave the area without ever seeing the man again. He could even get a shag out of Charles first."Synonyms: aphrodisia, carnal knowledge, coitus, coition, commerce, commixtion, congress, conjunctionslangvulgar

3. (slang, vulgar) A casual sexual partner.Examples: "Lizzy is a shag extraordinaire, but has a tongue like a sailor and a castrating stare."; "'It turned out that it was me who was just a shag to him. He had a girlfriend I didn't know about. He presumed I was up for some no-strings action. And the thing is, I thought I was – in theory. But in practice, I realized that I wasn't.'"; ""Was I just another shag to you, Trace? Someone to bed when the offer came?""slangvulgar

noun (English)

1. (Northwestern Ontario) A fundraising dance in honour of a couple engaged to be married.Synonyms: stag and doe, stag and doe party, social, wedding socialNorthwesternOntario

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "shag"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "shag"?

Scrabble
8 points
S1
H4
A1
G2
Words With Friends
8 points
S1
H3
A1
G3

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