Word.ws English Dictionary

shagaholic

shagaholic noun: a person who is addicted to sex.

Noun

shagaholic (plural shagaholics)

  1. (UK, slang) A person who is addicted to sex.
    • You young 'uns might not believe this, but Michael Caine burst on to the screen as a bona fide sex symbol thanks to Alfie, about a Cockney shagaholic who made the most of the Swinging '60s.1999 June 29, “Pianist Steve Koven and the Steve Koven Trio perform at the Downtown Jazz Festival”, in Toronto Star
    • Myers may still be having fun with his shagaholic spy, as well as the rest of the characters he plays, but he's the only one still laughing.2002 December 12, Alison Kerr, “Videos”, in The Herald, Glasgow
    Synonyms:
    sexaholic

Synonyms of shagaholic

Forms of shagaholic

pluralshagaholics

Origin of shagaholic

From shag (“to have sexual intercourse with”) + -aholic.

Questions about shagaholic

What does shagaholic mean?
Shagaholic means a person who is addicted to sex.
What part of speech is shagaholic?
Shagaholic is a noun.
What is the plural of shagaholic?
The plural of shagaholic is shagaholics.

Words near shagaholic in the dictionary

  1. shag-boys
  2. shag-hound
  3. shag-hounds
  4. shag-rag
  5. shagadelic
  6. shagaholic
  7. shagaholics
  8. shagai
  9. Shagaluf
  10. shaganappi
  11. shaganappis

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shagaholic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: En-au-shagaholic.ogg.

Cite this entry: “shagaholic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/shagaholic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.