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[shag] / ʃæg /














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They spread poster boards across the cream-colored shag rug, shook up their paint pens and started to craft their messages.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 8, 2026

An era remembered now, if at all, for leisure suits, burnt-orange shag carpeting and muttonchop sideburns, it marked the passage from progress to reaction.

From Salon • Aug. 9, 2025

There is good news for some of the seabirds that breed in the UK, with the shag moving from the red list to the amber and the black guillemot from the amber to the green.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2024

It’s easy to forget the days when children designed their own spaceships and castles out of a stew of mismatched blocks spilled on the living room shag.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2024

She looks down at the white shag wool rug and tells Gladys, “Tienes una casa muy bonita.”

From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar




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