twag
/twæɡ/
twag verb: to play truant.
Verb
twag (third-person singular simple present twags, present participle twagging, simple past and past participle twagged)
- To play truant.
- Synonyms:
- play hooky, skive, skive off
Noun capitalized: TWAG
TWAG (plural TWAGs)
- A wife or girlfriend of a tennis player.
- Either way, the future looks secure for Tim and original Twag (tennis wife and/or girlfriend) Lucy. There's no need to become a PE teacher or pub landlord just yet.2007 August 21, Barney Ronay, “Game, set and match”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024
- Number one TWAG (that's tennis WAG) Kim Sears put her best fashion foot forward at the opening day of Wimbledon yesterday.2014 June 24, Sarah Barns, “Get the look: It's all white for Kim Sears as she wows in £225 Reiss dress and Aspinal bag”, in Daily Express, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024
Synonyms of twag
Forms of twag
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | twags |
| present participle | twagging |
| past participle | twagged |
| past | twagged |
| alternative form | twagg |
| Noun | |
| plural | TWAGs |
Origin of twag
Unknown.
Blend of tennis + WAGs (“wives and girlfriends”).
Words formed from twag
- twaglady
- twagman
Words that rhyme with twag
Questions about twag
- What does twag mean?
- Twag means to play truant.
- What part of speech is twag?
- Twag can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce twag?
- Twag is pronounced /twæɡ/.
- What is the past tense of twag?
- The past tense of twag is twagged.
Words near twag in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: twag (page history and authors); TWAG (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.
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