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shag

[shag] / ʃæg /














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They spread poster boards across the cream-colored shag rug, shook up their paint pens and started to craft their messages.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 8, 2026

She appeared at our interview with opaque cat eye sunglasses and her signature shag haircut stylishly mussed.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2025

An era remembered now, if at all, for leisure suits, burnt-orange shag carpeting and muttonchop sideburns, it marked the passage from progress to reaction.

From Salon • Aug. 9, 2025

Initial figures suggest the shag population is down by 75% on the inner islands, but there is some hope.

From BBC • Sep. 5, 2024

My best friend’s narrow face, almost buried under his chestnut curly shag, filled the screen in the video-call app.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas