stag
(noun) adult male deer
hart, stag
(noun) a male deer, especially an adult male red deer
spy, stag, snoop, sleuth
(verb) watch, observe, or inquire secretly
denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stag
(verb) give away information about somebody; “He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam”
stag
(verb) attend a dance or a party without a female companion
Source: WordNet® 3.1
stag (countable and uncountable, plural stags)
(countable) An adult male deer.
(countable) A colt, or filly.
(by extension, countable, obsolete) A romping girl; a tomboy.
(countable) An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox).
(countable, finance) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
(countable, finance) One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.
(countable) The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.
(countable, usually attributive) An unmarried male, a bachelor; a male not accompanying a female at a social event.
(countable) A social event for males held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom, sometimes a fund-raiser.
(countable) A stag beetle (family Lucanidae).
(uncountable, UK, military, slang) Guard duty.
• (social event): bachelor party (US), stag do (UK informal), stag party, stag lunch
• (male red deer): royal stag, imperial stag, monarch
stag (third-person singular simple present stags, present participle stagging, simple past and past participle stagged)
(intransitive, British) To act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks.
(transitive) To watch; to dog, or keep track of.
Synonym: shadow
stag (not comparable)
Of a man, attending a formal social function without a date.
• ATGs, GATS, GTAs, TAGs, gast, gats, tags
Source: Wiktionary
Stag, n. Etym: [Icel. steggr the male of several animals; or a doubtful AS. stagga. Cf. Steg.]
1. (Zoöl.) (a) The adult male of the red deer (Cervus elaphus), a large European species closely related to the American elk, or wapiti. (b) The male of certain other species of large deer.
2. A colt, or filly; also, a romping girl. [Prov. Eng.]
3. A castrated bull; -- called also bull stag, and bull seg. See the Note under Ox.
4. (Stock Exchange) (a) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange. [Cant] (b) One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock. [Cant]
5. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The European wren. [Prov. Eng.] Stag beetle (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of lamellicorn beetles belonging to Lucanus and allied genera, especially L. cervus of Europe and L. dama of the United States. The mandibles are large and branched, or forked, whence the name. The lava feeds on the rotten wood of dead trees. Called also horned bug, and horse beetle.
– Stag dance, a dance by men only. [slang, U.S.] -- Stag hog (Zoöl.), the babiroussa.
– Stag-horn coral (Zoöl.), any one of several species of large branching corals of the genus Madrepora, which somewhat resemble the antlers of the stag, especially Madrepora cervicornis, and M. palmata, of Florida and the West Indies.
– Stag-horn fern (Bot.), an Australian and West African fern (Platycerium alcicorne) having the large fronds branched like a stag's horns; also, any species of the same genus.
– Stag-horn sumac (Bot.), a common American shrub (Rhus typhina) having densely velvety branchlets. See Sumac.
– Stag party, a party consisting of men only. [Slang, U. S.] -- Stag tick (Zoöl.), a parasitic dipterous insect of the family Hippoboscidæ, which lives upon the stag and in usually wingless. The same species lives also upon the European grouse, but in that case has wings.
Stag, v. i. (Com.)
Definition: To act as a "stag", or irregular dealer in stocks. [Cant]
Stag, v. t.
Definition: To watch; to dog, or keep track of. [Prov. Eng. or Slang] H. Kingsley.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 April 2024
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
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