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- Dictionarystag/staɡ/
noun
- 1. a male deer, especially a male red deer after its fifth year.
- 2. a social gathering attended by men only: "a stag event"
adverb
- 1. without a female partner at a social gathering: North American "a lot of boys went stag"
verb
- 1. buy (shares in a new issue) and sell them at once for a profit: British "they made profits from stagging each issue"
- 2. roughly cut (a garment, especially a pair of trousers) to make it shorter: informal North American "I stagged them off and burned the ends then tucked them away"
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Definition of stag noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Word History and Origins. Origin of stag 1. First recorded in 1150–1200; Middle English stagge; akin to Old Norse steggi, steggr “male bird” (giving rise to northern English dialect steg “gander”), Icelandic steggur “male fox, tomcat”.
stag. noun [ C ] uk / stæɡ / us. Add to word list Add to word list. a male deer. (Definition of stag from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
