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stag
[ stag ]
noun
- an adult male deer.
- a man who attends a social gathering unaccompanied by a woman.
- Informal. stag party.
- a domesticated boar or bull castrated after maturation of the sexual organs.
- British. a speculator who buys securities of a new issue in the hope of selling them quickly at a higher price.
verb (used without object)
- Informal. (of a man) to attend a social function without a female companion.
adjective
- of or for men only:
a stag dinner.
- intended for male audiences and usually pornographic in content:
a stag show.
adverb
- without a companion or date:
to go stag to a dance.
stag
/ stæɡ /
noun
- the adult male of a deer, esp a red deer
- a man unaccompanied by a woman at a social gathering
- stock exchange
- a speculator who applies for shares in a new issue in anticipation of a rise in price when trading commences in order to make a quick profit on resale
- ( as modifier )
stag operations
- modifier (of a social gathering) attended by men only
- modifier pornographic in content
a stag show
adverb
- without a female escort
verb
- stock exchange to apply for (shares in a new issue) with the intention of selling them for a quick profit when trading commences
Other Words From
- staglike adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of stag1
Word History and Origins
Origin of stag1
Idioms and Phrases
In addition to the idiom beginning with stag , also see go stag .Example Sentences
It’s hard to drag your thoughts away from Mahomes’s pure physicality, the strange combination of brawn and lithe movement, the supple slinging throws, the dodging stag legs.
And there happens to be a rock with stag on top of it as a monument right outside of town.
When "Paula" stalled at Stag, Salinger must have been relieved.
Salinger retooled it, retitled it "Paula," and sold it to Stag, a middlebrow publication for men.
“President Zal ul-Haq refused me entry to his entourage, saying it was a stag party,” Mustafa told the audience.
According to Eade, in his youth Philip was a member of a lunch club that enjoyed “rip-roaring stag parties” every Thursday.
Sometimes when the children were playing in the snow, they found the antlers of a full-grown stag.
I did not realize it until that early morning when I heard the moving feet, as one hears dogs on the hurrying heels of a stag.
I looked up and there was a stag whose nostrils were quivering with excitement as if he scented the music.
I thought I saw weasels way below, and in the distance I felt the stag disturbing the leaves of small plants.
It was an untried leap to the farmer, who nevertheless went at it like a thunderbolt and cleared it like a stag.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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