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Jag

//d͡ʒæɡ// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A sharp projection.

    "garments thus beset with long jagges and pursles"

  2. 2
    Enough liquor to make a person noticeably drunk; a skinful.
  3. 3
    A Jaguar car. informal

    ""One of the ticket collectors at our local station," observed Mr. Fiennes, "has a Jag.""

  4. 4
    Acronym of judge advocate general. US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable

    "Of the three JAGs who were dismissed, I know Lt. Gen. Charles Plummer and worked with him for more than three years."

  5. 5
    a bout of drinking or drug taking wordnet
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  1. 6
    A part broken off; a fragment.

    "some Jaggs will ſuffice to be recited"

  2. 7
    A binge or period of overindulgence; a spree.

    "Consider, the pessimists argue, the vast number of plays which it is only possible to sit through with the assistance of what Ella Wheeler Wilcox would call a mild jag."

  3. 8
    a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing wordnet
  4. 9
    A flap, a tear in a clothing
  5. 10
    A fit, spell, outburst.

    "Of course she did not lose her sense of humor (not necessarily to be confused with her laughing fits, which are crying jags turned inside out according to the shrinks)."

  6. 11
    a slit in a garment that exposes material of a different color underneath; used in Renaissance clothing wordnet
  7. 12
    A cleft or division.
  8. 13
    A one-horse cart load, or, in modern times, a truck load, of hay or wood.
  9. 14
    a sharp projection on an edge or surface wordnet
  10. 15
    A medical injection, a jab. Scotland
  11. 16
    A leather bag or wallet; (in the plural) saddlebags. Scotland, archaic
  12. 17
    A thorn from a bush (see jaggerbush). Pennsylvania, Western, dialectal
  13. 18
    Ellipsis of jagoff (“an irritating, inept, or repugnant person”). Pennsylvania, Western, abbreviation, alt-of, derogatory, dialectal, ellipsis
Verb
  1. 1
    To cut unevenly.
  2. 2
    cut teeth into; make a jagged cutting edge wordnet
  3. 3
    To tease. Pennsylvania, Western

Etymology

Etymology 1

The noun is from late Middle English jagge, from Old English giagga, giacga. The ultimate origin could be sound-symbolic of sudden movement, compare with jam and rag. The verb is from jaggen, from Old English giacgian.

Etymology 2

The noun is from late Middle English jagge, from Old English giagga, giacga. The ultimate origin could be sound-symbolic of sudden movement, compare with jam and rag. The verb is from jaggen, from Old English giacgian.

Etymology 3

Circa 1597; originally "load of broom or furze", variant of British English dialectal chag (“tree branch; branch of broom or furze”), from Old English ċeacga (“broom, furze”), from Proto-Germanic *kagô (compare dialectal German Kag (“stump, cabbage, stalk”), Swedish dialect kage (“stumps”), Norwegian dialect kage (“low bush”), of unknown origin.

Etymology 4

Shortening of Jaguar.

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