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- noun Plural form of
shag .
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Examples
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It may not be amiss to observe, that the shags are the same bird which Bougainville calls saw-bills; but he is mistaken in saying that the quebrantahuessas are their enemies; for this bird is of the peterel tribe, feeds wholly on fish, and is to be found in all the high southern latitudes.
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A night or two after, they sent out some of their young men, who procured us a quantity of a very delicate kind of birds, called shags and cormorants.
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Philadelphia Phillies 'baseball team manager Charlie Manuel, on how tenacious outfield prospect Tyson Gillies pursues (or "shags", in American-speak) flyballs hit during batting practice.
BBC - Ouch BBC Sport 2010
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With intimacy all but gone out of sex for young people, it has been replaced with a new culture of "shags" and "threesomes" and girls tend not to care who it is with or who knows what about their sexual liaisons.
Irish Blogs 2010
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Lopez Tonight Thursday that, yes, her fitness secret is that she "shags"
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I looked at oatmeal shags that looked like somebody had spilled oatmeal on the shag already.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway timprov 2010
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This bird, along with the other cormorants, shags, anhingas and gannets are placed into the same taxonomic order as pelicans -- although the pelicans are much more closely related to the storks than to the Phalacrocoracidae.
Mystery bird: Neotropic cormorant, Phalacrocorax brasilianus 2011
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The part where House is out of his mind and shags people who are strong enough to take it.
Everyone come down off the ledge rabid1st 2009
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Bell bottoms, bit belts, afros, shags, mullets and jheri curl trends were famous and for the 1st time, one could adorn himself to suit.
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I looked at oatmeal shags that looked like somebody had spilled oatmeal on the shag already.
mrissa: 2010: a not-very-carpeted odyssey mrissa 2010
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