Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bout of drinking or drug use.
- noun A period of overindulgence in an activity; a spree.
- noun A small load or portion.
- noun A sharp projection; a barb.
- noun A hanging flap along the edge of a garment.
- noun A slash or slit in a garment exposing material of a different color.
- transitive verb To cut jags in; notch.
- transitive verb To cut unevenly.
- transitive verb Scots To jab sharply; prick.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rustic; a farm-hand: as, a plow jag.
- noun A one-horse load; a wagon-load.
- noun A saddle-bag; a wallet.
- noun As much liquor as one can carry: as, to have a jag on hence, a drunken condition.
- noun A fare or catch of fish.
- noun A lot, parcel, load, or quantity: as, a, jag of oysters.
- To notch; cut or slash in notches, teeth, or ragged points.
- To prick, jab, or lacerate, as with a knife or dirk.
- Nautical, to lay or fold in long bights, as a rope or tackle, and tie up with stops.
- To carry, as a load: as, to
jag hay. - noun A sharp notch or tooth, as of a saw; a ragged or tattered point; a zig-zag.
- noun One of a series of points or dags cut in the edge of a garment for ornament: a style much in favor in France and England in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. See
dag . - noun A stab or jab, as with a sharp instrument.
- noun In botany, a cleft or division.—5. A barbed joining or dovetail; a jag-bolt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S. To carry, as a load
- noun Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S. A small load, as of hay or grain in the straw, or of ore.
- noun (Mil.), Acronym Same as Judge-Advocate General.
- transitive verb To cut into notches or teeth like those of a saw; to notch.
- transitive verb a wheel with a zigzag or jagged edge for cutting cakes or pastry into ornamental figures.
- noun A notch; a cleft; a barb; a ragged or sharp protuberance; a denticulation.
- noun A part broken off; a fragment.
- noun (Bot.) A cleft or division.
- noun Scot., Scot., Scot. A leather bag or wallet
- noun Slang, U. S. & Dial. Eng. Enough liquor to make a man noticeably drunk; a small “load;” a time or case of drunkeness; -- esp. in phr.
To have a jag on , to be drunk. - noun a bolt with a nicked or barbed shank which resists retraction, as when leaded into stone.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
sharp projection . - noun Scotland A medical
injection . - verb To cut
unevenly . - verb To
tease . - noun A
binge or period of overindulgence; aspree . - noun a one-horse
cart load, or, in modern times, atruck load, of hay or wood.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a sharp projection on an edge or surface
- noun a slit in a garment that exposes material of a different color underneath; used in Renaissance clothing
- noun a bout of drinking or drug taking
- verb cut teeth into; make a jagged cutting edge
- noun a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Jag skiter i allt annat, jag lovar jag svär jag vill ha dig i min famn, höra alla dina andetag jag vill vara till hjälp när du känner dej
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Jag skiter i allt annat, jag lovar jag svär jag vill ha dig i min famn, höra alla dina andetag jag vill vara till hjälp när du känner dej
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In southern Ohio, and in the mountain districts of West Virginia the "---- jag" was a standard form of intoxication.
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Making Forty Mile with a view to dissipating his newly found wealth in a gormandizing "jag," he sent the settlers in that ramshackle camp into wild excitement by producing nuggets of a size hitherto unmatched.
Colorado Jim George Goodchild
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He had set his mind on a "jag" of the worst description -- to drink and forget.
Colorado Jim George Goodchild
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The old time ---- was condemned by the United States Government as an intoxicant and stimulant, and cures were sold in various parts of the country for the ---- "jag," yet in the new advertisement the following appears:
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The "jag" he developed was something phenomenal, and he was finally locked up in the Bastile by common consent.
Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923
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They shut their eyes and literally feel what is going on -- see pistols flashing, as the man, with a well-developed Texas "jag," sees keyholes in the door at 3 o'clock G.M. -- just legions of them.
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Since I’m on a bit of a word-coining jag of late, I should note that the scintillating Laure has improved upon my tag for a literary phenomenon I’d long dubbed “Paul Auster Syndrome,” offering the far more concise Austerism.
Austerism 2007
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A "jag," be it known, means primarily a load, secondarily a "load," or
America To-day, Observations and Reflections William Archer 1890
bilby commented on the word jag
Scots - an injection.
December 6, 2007
bilby commented on the word jag
I detest the Persian pomp;
I hate those linden-bark devices;
And as for roses, holy Moses!
They can't be got at living prices!
Myrtle is good enough for us,—
For you, as bearer of my flagon;
For me, supine beneath this vine,
Doing my best to get a jag on!
- Eugene Field, 'The Preference Declared'.
September 14, 2009
dontcry commented on the word jag
Judge Advocate General
April 23, 2011
Gammerstang commented on the word jag
(noun) - (1) An Americanism for drunkenness. The word is employed in a variety of ways: "He's got a jag on," he's on a drinking bout; "He's on his jags"; "He knows how it is to have the jags"; "He has the jags just now," etc.
--Trench Johnson's Phrases and Names: Their Origins and Meanings, 1906
(2) Jagged, drunk.
--John Farmer's Slang and Its Analogues, 1890-1904
January 14, 2018