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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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-- 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
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He upreared his big, shag-haired figure and gripped Larry's hand.
Children of the Whirlwind Leroy Scott 1902
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