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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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The meaning of STAG is an adult male red deer; also : the male of various other deer (especially genus Cervus). How to use stag in a sentence.
STAG definition: 1. an adult male deer 2. a person who buys shares in a company that is being sold to the public…. Learn more.
A stag is an adult male deer belonging to one of the larger species of deer. Stags usually have large branch-like horns called antlers.
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”.
go stag. (North American English, old-fashioned, informal) (of a man) to go to a party without a partner. Definition of stag noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
STAG meaning: 1. an adult male deer 2. a person who buys shares in a company that is being sold to the public…. Learn more.
A stag is another word for a buck, or a male deer. If you spot a family of deer in the woods, the stag is the one with the largest antlers. There are different terms for male deer, depending on the species, and stag usually describes the largest types of deer.
