Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having rough, shaggy hair.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having shaggy hair.

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Examples

  • I decided I needed to get to know this unassuming but clearly dangerously funny shag-haired NOT-a-nobody.

    Binky Philips: I Visit Graceland and Get Kurt Cobain's Autograph Binky Philips 2011

  • An unusually pudgy Paul Williams plays Kurtz, a shag-haired crime boss/pimp -- and the Movie Channel print was so sharp that the red impression of a discarded wedding band is sometimes distractingly visible on the third finger of Williams' left hand.

    STONE COLD DEAD on TMC 2006

  • An unusually pudgy Paul Williams plays Kurtz, a shag-haired crime boss/pimp -- and the Movie Channel print was so sharp that the red impression of a discarded wedding band is sometimes distractingly visible on the third finger of Williams' left hand.

    Archive 2006-09-24 2006

  • On a warm June evening, the novelist Rick Moody sat on the floor of the placid backroom of the Ludlow Street bar Pianos, peeking out from beneath the brim of a porkpie hat at a shag-haired musician named Hannah Marcus.

    Flaubert's Parrots 2005

  • On a warm June evening, the novelist Rick Moody sat on the floor of the placid backroom of the Ludlow Street bar Pianos, peeking out from beneath the brim of a porkpie hat at a shag-haired musician named Hannah Marcus.

    Flaubert's Parrots 2005

  • They crossed a snowy pass in cold moonlight, when the lama, mildly chaffing Kim, went through up to his knees, like a Bactrian camel — the snow-bred, shag-haired sort that came into the Kashmir Serai.

    Kim 2003

  • This whimsical conceit of yours brings me to the remembrance of a solemn promise made by the shag-haired

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • This whimsical conceit of yours brings me to the remembrance of a solemn promise made by the shag-haired

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • -- They were skin-clad hillmen, shag-haired, with strange, rude weapons, in hiding here after hard fighting with a disciplined, conquering foe who had swords and shining breastplates and crested helmets.

    Foes Mary Johnston 1903

  • He upreared his big, shag-haired figure and gripped Larry's hand.

    Children of the Whirlwind Leroy Scott 1902

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