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adv
Of a man, attending a formal social function without a date.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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noun
An adult male deer, especially a red deer and especially one in high adulthood versus a young adult.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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Synonyms: buck, hart
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noun
A young horse (colt or filly).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, countable
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noun
A male turkey: a turkeycock.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, uncountable
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noun
A romping girl; a tomboy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, obsolete
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noun
An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Topics: business, finance
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Topics: business, finance
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noun
An unmarried man; a bachelor; a man not accompanying a woman at a social event.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive, countable, usually
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noun
A social event for men held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom; sometimes a fundraiser.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Synonyms: bachelor party, stag do, stag party, stag lunch
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noun
An informer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, slang
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noun
Guard duty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, slang, uncountable
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
A stag beetle (family Lucanidae).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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verb
To act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, intransitive
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verb
To watch; to dog, or keep track of.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: shadow
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noun
adult male deer
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: buck
Narrower terms: royal, royal stag
noun
a male deer, especially an adult male red deer
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: hart
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: red deer, elk, American elk, wapiti, Cervus elaphus
verb
watch, observe, or inquire secretly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: spy, snoop, sleuth
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Broader terms: monitor, supervise
verb
give away information about somebody
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, shop, snitch
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: inform
Narrower terms: sell out
verb
attend a dance or a party without a female companion
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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History
From Middle English stagge, steg, from Old English stagga, stacga (“a stag”) and possibly Old Norse steggi, steggr (“a male animal”), both from Proto-Germanic *staggijô, *staggijaz (“male, male deer, porcupine”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *stegh-, *stengh- (“to sting; rod, blade; sharp, stiff”). Doublet of steg (“gander”). Cognate with Icelandic steggi, steggur (“tomcat, male fox”). Related to staggard, staggon.
Across languages
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