Stag Definition

stăg
stagged, stagging, stags
noun
stags
A full-grown male deer, esp. a hart or a caribou.
Webster's New World
A male animal, esp. a hog, castrated in maturity.
Webster's New World
A man who attends a social gathering unaccompanied by a woman.
Webster's New World
A social gathering attended by men only.
Webster's New World

An adult male deer.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
adjective
For men only.
A stag dinner.
Webster's New World
Pornographic.
Stag films.
American Heritage
adverb
Unaccompanied.
Went to the dance stag.
American Heritage

Of a man, attending a formal social function without a date.

My brother went stag to prom because he couldn't find a date.
Wiktionary
verb
To attend a social gathering unaccompanied by a partner. Used especially of men.
American Heritage

To go to a party, etc. as a stag.

Webster's New World
To observe or follow secretly or furtively; spy on.
Webster's New World
(intransitive, UK) To act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks.
Wiktionary

To watch; to dog, or keep track of.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
idiom
go stag
  • to go as a stag
  • to go unescorted by a man
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Stag

Noun

Singular:
stag
Plural:
stags

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Stag

  • go stag

Origin of Stag

  • From Middle English steg, stagge, from Old English stagga, stacga (“a stag") and Old Norse steggi, steggr (“a male animal"), both from Proto-Germanic *staggijô, *staggijaz (“male, male deer, porcupine"), from Proto-Indo-European *stegÊ°-, *stengÊ°- (“to sting; rod, blade; sharp, stiff"). Cognate with Icelandic steggi, steggur (“stag") and Albanian shtagë (“long stick, pole, schaft"). Related to staggard, staggon.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English stagge from Old English stagga stegh- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Stag Sentence Examples

  • Exmoor is noted for its stag hunting.

  • A stag dragged him from his horse by fixing its antlers in his belt.

  • At an early period stag hunting was a favourite recreation with English royalty.

  • The focal point is a royal red deer stag.

  • Amymone having thrown her spear at a stag, missed it, but hit a satyr asleep in the brake.

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