Shag
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Shag may refer to:
  • Collegiate shag
    Collegiate shag
    The Collegiate Shag is a partner dance done primarily to upper tempo jazz music . It belongs to the swing family of American vernacular dances that arose in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s.-Name:...

    , a swing dance that originated in the 1920s (popular in the 1930s and 40s)
  • Carolina shag
    Carolina shag
    Carolina Shag is a six-count partner dance done mostly to moderate tempo music . During the dance the upper body and hips hardly move as the legs do convoluted kicks and fancy footwork. The lead is the center of attention, and the follow's steps either mirror the lead's or mark time while the lead...

    , a swing dance that originated in South Carolina in the 1940s
  • St. Louis shag
    St. Louis shag
    St. Louis shag is a swing dance that evolved from Charleston. As its name suggests, it is recognized as being started in St. Louis, Missouri. It is a very fast closed position dance that is usually done to stomp, jump, and boogie-woogie music....

    , a swing dance that evolved from the Charleston
  • Shag (1989 film)
    Shag (1989 film)
    Shag is a 1989 comedy film starring Bridget Fonda, Phoebe Cates, Annabeth Gish, Page Hannah, Jeff Yagher and Scott Coffey. The film features Carolina shag dancing and was produced in cooperation with the North Carolina Film Commission. The soundtrack album was on Sire/Warner Bros...

  • Shag (fabric)
    Shag (fabric)
    A shag is a rug or carpet that has a deep pile, giving it a shaggy appearance. Shag carpeting is sometimes evoked as an example of the esthetic from the culture of the 1970s in the United States....

    , a fabric typically used to make deep-pile carpets
  • Shag or Cormorant
    Cormorant
    The bird family Phalacrocoracidae is represented by some 40 species of cormorants and shags. Several different classifications of the family have been proposed recently, and the number of genera is disputed.- Names :...

    , a bird family
    • European Shag, a specific species of the shag or cormorant family
  • The Shag
    The Shag
    The Shag - originally known as The Shags, and later simply as Shag - were an American garage and psychedelic rock band in the 1960s, best known for their 1967 single "Stop and Listen"...

    , also known as The Shags (one of many bands of that name) or Shag, a 1960s garage and psychedelic rock band from Milwaukee
  • Shag, a name used on some pop records in the early 1970s by British record producer Jonathan King
    Jonathan King
    Jonathan King is an English singer, songwriter, impresario and record producer. He is also the author of three novels, Bible Two and The Booker Prize Winner , and Beware the Monkey Man , and an autobiography, 65 My Life So Far .King first came to prominence as an...

  • Shag (tobacco)
    Shag (tobacco)
    Shag, also known as rolling tobacco and loose tobacco is fine-cut tobacco used to make self-made cigarettes by hand rolling the tobacco into rolling paper or injecting it into filter tubes. It got its name from the finely cut strands appearing like 'shag' and was originally considered poor quality...

    , fine-cut tobacco
  • Shag (hairstyle)
    Shag (hairstyle)
    A shag cut is a hairstyle that has been layered to various lengths. It was created by the barber Paul McGregor. The layers are often feathered at the top and sides. The layers make the hair full around the crown, and the hair thins to fringes around the edges...

  • Shag (Josh Agle)
    SHAG (Josh Agle)
    Josh Agle is an American artist, better known by the nickname SHAG.-Life:Agle's nickname is derived from the last two letters of his first name, and the first two letters of his last name...

    , American artist
  • British slang for sexual intercourse
    Sexual intercourse
    Sexual intercourse, also known as copulation or coitus, commonly refers to the act in which a male's penis enters a female's vagina for the purposes of sexual pleasure or reproduction. The entities may be of opposite sexes, or they may be hermaphroditic, as is the case with snails...

     - see Wiktionary definition
  • verb: to collect volleyballs during practice
  • Shagging (baseball)
    Shagging (baseball)
    Shagging describes the act of catching fly balls in the outfield when not involved in actual baseball games. Pitchers may do this during batting practice before games. In the Major League Baseball Home Run Derby, children are recruited as shaggers in order to field balls that do not go out as a...

    , to catch fly balls in baseball outside of a game

See also

  • The Shaggs
    The Shaggs
    The Shaggs were an American all-female rock group formed in Fremont, New Hampshire in 1968. The band was composed of sisters Dorothy "Dot" Wiggin , Betty Wiggin , Helen Wiggin , and later Rachel Wiggin ....

  • Shag Rocks (disambiguation)
  • Shag Island (disambiguation)
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