jag
1a sharp projection on an edge or surface.
to cut or slash, especially in points or pendants along the edge; form notches, teeth, or ragged points in.
to move with a jerk; jog.
Origin of jag
1Other words from jag
- jagless, adjective
Other definitions for jag (2 of 3)
a period of unrestrained indulgence in an activity; spree; binge: a crying jag; a talking jag.
a state of intoxication from liquor.
Northern, North Midland, and Western U.S. a load, as of hay or wood.
Origin of jag
2Other definitions for J.A.G. (3 of 3)
Judge Advocate General.
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How to use jag in a sentence
She is funny, and regularly deflates Mitchum when he gets on one of his sentimental, drunken storytelling jags.
The Stacks: Mr. Bad Taste and Trouble Himself: Robert Mitchum | Robert Ward | July 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI depart as air ... I shake my locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags.
Prescott flaunted the perks of office, being dubbed “Two Jags Prescott” because he owned two Jaguar luxury sedans.
But he does it in the most disarming way—with props, costumes, gags, imitations, and on-air crying jags.
I saw a parcel of black jags of paper littering the place, and asked what had been going on?
Tales And Novels, Volume 3 (of 10) | Maria Edgeworth
Their complexity is already disordered: jags and rents are their laws of being; rent by the footstep 93 they betray no harm.
Modern Painters, Volume V (of 5) | John RuskinSo there were no jags, except what some people brought with them from their Christmas dinners and loaded plum puddings.
Colonel Crockett's Co-operative Christmas | Rupert HughesThey were clad in "rags and jags," and the face of the eldest was in "jags" also.
The Open Air | Richard JefferiesI envied them; they fancied I looked askance at their rags and jags.
The Open Air | Richard Jefferies
British Dictionary definitions for jag (1 of 4)
jagg
/ (dʒæɡ) /
(tr) to cut unevenly; make jagged
Australian to catch (fish) by impaling them on an unbaited hook
Scot an informal word for jab (def. 3), jab (def. 5)
a jagged notch or projection
Origin of jag
1British Dictionary definitions for jag (2 of 4)
/ (dʒæɡ) /
intoxication from drugs or alcohol
a bout of drinking or drug taking
a period of uncontrolled activity: a crying jag
Origin of jag
2British Dictionary definitions for Jag (3 of 4)
/ (dʒæɡ) /
informal a Jaguar car: often understood as a symbol of affluence
British Dictionary definitions for JAG (4 of 4)
Judge Advocate General
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