Shag

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

People

Pseudonym

• 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

Name

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

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

• 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

Dance

• 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

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Shag (film), a 1989 film
• Shag, a fictitious character from Road Rovers

Other uses

• 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

See also

• Shag Island (disambiguation)
• Shag Rocks (disambiguation)
• Shaggy (disambiguation)
• The Shaggs