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Go unaccompanied by a person of the opposite sex to a social event, as in John decided to go stag to his roommate's party , or Some of the girls are going stag to the dance . Although this term originally applied only to men attending an event without a woman companion, it is now applied to women as well. [c. 1900]

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[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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