Shag Explained

Shag, or Shagged, or Shagger, or Shagging, or Shags may refer to:

Animals

Shag or cormorant, a bird family
- European shag, a specific species of the shag or cormorant family
- Great cormorant another species of the family

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

Shag (name)
- Shag Thomas (1924–1982), American professional wrestler
- Avraham-Haim Shag (1883–1958), Israeli politician

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

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

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