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   shag

   /SHaɡ/

   noun

   • 1. a carpet or rug with a long, rough pile: "wall-to-wall shag carpet"
   • ▪ (of a pile) long and rough: "a shag pile"
   • ▪ cloth with a velvet nap on one side.
   • 2. a thick, tangled hairstyle or mass of hair: "her hair was cut short in a boyish shag"
   • 3. a coarse kind of cut tobacco.

   Word Origin late Old Englishsceacga ‘rough matted hair’, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse skegg ‘beard’ and shaw2.

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