shagging

Verb (1)

shag (third-person singular simple present shags, present participle shagging, simple past and past participle shagged)

1. (transitive) To make hairy or shaggy; to roughen.
   • 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.1809, Joel Barlow, The Columbiad: A Poem, page 34
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To hang in shaggy clusters.
   • And long curld locks that downe his shoulders shag1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Verb (2)

shag (third-person singular simple present shags, present participle shagging, simple past and past participle shagged)

1. (intransitive) To shake, wiggle around.

   Synonyms:

   jiggle, rock, tremble, quake, shake, vibrate, wiggle

2. (Australia, Ireland, UK, slang, transitive, vulgar) To have sex with.
   • 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.1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, “The Glass”, in Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 76

   Synonyms:

   Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoy, feague, go in unto, go to bed with, have

3. (Australia, Ireland, UK, intransitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex.
   • I'm not pregnant! I have shagged and shagged and shagged and all the little bastards missed!2002, Steven Moffat, Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps (Coupling), season 3, episode 7, spoken by Jane Christie (Gina Bellman)

   Synonyms:

   approach, cohabit, common, company, copulate, couple, engage in sex, exchange flesh, have intimate relations, have marital relations

4. (India, slang, transitive, vulgar) To masturbate.

   Synonyms:

   abuse, bash one out, bate, beat it, beat off, crank one out, fap, frig, goon, jack off

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