Shag
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Shag, or Shagged, or Shagger, or Shagging, or Shags may refer to:
Animals
[edit]- Shag or cormorant, a bird family
- European shag, a specific species of the shag or cormorant family
- Great cormorant another species of the family
People
[edit]Pseudonym
[edit]- Shag (artist), stage name of the American artist Josh Agle (born 1962)
- Shag, a name used on some pop records in the early 1970s by British record producer Jonathan King
- Shags Horan (1895–1969), American baseball player
Name
[edit]- Shag (name)
- Shag Thomas (1924–1982), American professional wrestler
- Avraham-Haim Shag (1883–1958), Israeli politician
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]Music
[edit]- The Shag, also known as The Shags (one of many bands of that name) or Shag, a 1960s garage and psychedelic rock band from Milwaukee
- The Shags (Connecticut band), a 1960s rock band from Connecticut
Dance
[edit]- Carolina shag, a swing dance that originated in South Carolina in the 1940s and still is their state dance
- Collegiate shag, a swing dance that originated in the 1920s (popular in the 1930s and 40s)
- St. Louis shag, a swing dance that evolved from the Charleston
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]- Shag (film), a 1989 film
- Shag, a fictitious character from Road Rovers
Other uses
[edit]- Shag (fabric), a fabric typically used to make deep-pile carpets
- Shag (hairstyle)
- Shag (tobacco), fine-cut tobacco
- Shag, a party and fundraiser for an engaged couple, also known as a stag and doe
- Shagger (bruise), a temporary bruise caused by kissing, sucking, or biting the skin forcefully enough to burst blood vessels beneath the skin
- Shagging (baseball), to catch fly balls in baseball outside a game
- Ball shagger or shag, fabric for the cleaning of golf balls