(v. t.) To make hairy or shaggy; hence, to make rough.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Because people didn't see me falling out of clubs or shagging in the alleys with different girls every week, they thought something was wrong with me.
(2) This is a guy whose last feature, Trash Humpers , was 80 minutes of old people shagging foliage.
(3) Voteman aims to get young people voting by slapping them around the chops, decapitating them, or simply hurling them into the voting booth like the shagging, lazy slackers they are.
(4) It's the difference between a quick shag and an all-night lovemaking session!"
(5) The movie was shot last year during a real spring break in St Petersburg, Florida, amid the kind of week-long teen chaos – motels on fire, pools filled with furniture, kids shagging in the street – that it takes a resort town a year to recover from.
(6) During Friday's hearing, White referred to an email she sent to a newspaper providing a tip about Nick Clegg's sex life, known as the "18 shags story" and said "it suggests something about her attitude".
(7) The relatively low activity of these enzymes is probably the main reason why the shag has been found to contain relatively high levels of dieldrin in ecological studies.
(8) "A shag", Ferdinand explained when asked what the gesture meant.
(9) I didn't look like I was supposed to because I'd been Barbarella and now I had this short, brown shag that became famous in Klute.
(10) You shagged your team-mate's missus, you're a cunt."
(11) A sports commentator was cut loose from his radio station this week for sending a tweet that read: "To all fellow women journalists: shag wisely, you could become the next first lady of France."
(12) We shouldn’t beat ourselves up about one-night stands or walks of shame.” The idea of your 20s as a carefree period before a woman starts her “real” life of monogamy and child-bearing is not a new one: see the end of John Cleland’s Memoirs of A Woman of Pleasure , published in 1748, where 300 pages of masturbation, orgies and lesbianism are followed by a “tail-piece of morality”, and protagonist Fanny Hill explains that she is much happier now she’s put all that filthy shagging behind her.
(13) Scattering out around the goals and small pitches informal games are played in mixed groups as pretty much every kid here takes a turn to demonstrate their range of tricks, traps and flicks on that wondrous green shag.
(14) She also caused some offence in 2005 when she suggested on air, in the wake of revelations about John Prescott's extra-marital activities, that his nickname should be changed from "two jags" to "two shags".
(15) Women comedians are probably not looking for shags in any case; if they were, they probably couldn't say so.
(16) Avon: "If your mate just gives us the bird he was shagging - was she a bird in Buckingham Palace?"
(17) "You shagged your team-mate's missus, you're the cunt."
(18) However, "continuing dramas" can't all be about shagging and hotpot (brilliant though that sounds).
(19) Hatchet was subjected to virulent internet abuse, some fans at United games sang songs naming and abusing his victim and declaring that Evans would “shag who he wants”.
(20) Liver microsomes of the shag showed smaller than 8% of the epoxide hydrase activity and smaller than 14% of the hydroxylating capacity of liver microsomes from the rat.
Shah
Definition:
(n.) The title of the supreme ruler in certain Eastern countries, especially Persia.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two “Belgian journalists” had been in the Panjshir valley of northern Afghanistan for weeks, supposedly waiting to interview Ahmad Shah Massoud, the so-called Lion of the Panjshir, leader of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, an al-Qaida adversary.
(2) The Shah's secret police – Savak – became increasingly brutal, ultimately detaining without trial and torturing tens of thousands of Iranian citizens.
(3) But British ambassador Sir Anthony Parsons famously got it wrong, reporting that the shah's position was secure as late as 1978.
(4) Naureen Shah, director of Amnesty International USA’s security and human rights programme, acknowledged the need for governments to assess their approach in the aftermath of major attacks but said: “What we don’t want to see is government using the Paris attacks as a pretext for extending surveillance authorities or pushing back against reforms that even the government acknowledged as necessary.” Some of the hawkish responses to events in Paris “raise a question of whether there’s an exploiting of public fear and anger and anxiety to push legislation through”, she added.
(5) Galloway accused Shah of lying about how old she was when she claimed to have been “emotionally blackmailed” into marrying a cousin in Pakistan.
(6) The 15-page speech on "the limits of law" was delivered by Sumption – once one of Britain's highest-earning barristers – at the 27th Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, last week.
(7) Shah Ebrahim, head of the independent Cochrane Collaboration team, whose review of the benefits and side-effects of the drugs led to the Nice recommendation, also thinks the papers should be withdrawn.
(8) Naz Shah, Labour MP for Bradford West since 2015, has described misogynistic attempts to smear her by local party members.
(9) Ahmed Shah Masood, soldier and politician, born c1952; died September 15, 2001.
(10) The UK and Russia invade Iran and jointly occupy the country, forcing King Reza Shah to abdicate.
(11) Dr Umair A Shah, executive director of the Harris County department of public health, said, “It’s probably not a case of if we get Zika in our native mosquitoes, it’s probably a case of when we get Zika in our native mosquitoes.” Zika is a subtropical virus transmitted by the Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes, part of a group of diseases known as arboviruses, short for arthropod-borne viruses.
(12) The al-Qatif governorate of Eastern Province, bordering the Gulf, has been the setting for anti-regime agitation since at least 1979, when Saudi Shias demonstrated in support of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, whose Islamic revolution in Iran that year toppled the shah.
(13) Rustam Shah Mohmand, a former political agent who once administered the same tribal agency where Afridi was tried, said the case would never have succeeded in regular court.
(14) Richard Sewell's diary reveals that he and New Zealand ambassador Chris Beeby were closely involved with the ambitious plot to fly the US diplomats to safety at a time when anti-American rhetoric was at an all-time high following the overthrow of the Shah and Washington's decision to harbour its dying ally.
(15) Thus it was with the Shah of Iran in 1979, Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania in 1989 and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt earlier this year.
(16) The list includes Refaii Hamo, a Syrian refugee who arrived in Detroit in December, and Saudi-American army veteran Naveed Shah, reflections of the president’s effort to resettle 10,000 refugees and his opposition to anti-Muslim sentiment .
(17) They can probably stabilise the market, but it will be a political decision, as they will have to compel government, state agencies, banks, pension funds, insurance companies to buy,” said Ashok Shah, investment director at London & Capital.
(18) It was the early 1970s, our oil revenue had significantly increased and I spoke to His Majesty [the Shah] and [the then prime minister] Mr Amir-Abbas Hoveyda, and told them that it was the best time to buy some of our ancient works both internally and from outside.
(19) Shah Deniz 2 involves 16bn more going to Bulgaria, Greece, and Italy.
(20) They were identified as 61-year-old German doctor Eberhard Schaaf, Nepal-born Canadian Shriya Shah, and South Korean mountaineer Song Won-bin.