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JAG
/d͡ʒæɡ/
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What does JAG mean?
noun
- A sharp projection.
- A part broken off; a fragment.
- A flap, a tear in a clothing
More meanings (14)
noun
- A cleft or division.
- A medical injection, a jab.
- A thorn from a bush (see jaggerbush).
- Enough liquor to make a person noticeably drunk; a skinful.
- A binge or period of overindulgence; a spree.
- A fit, spell, outburst.
- A one-horse cart load, or, in modern times, a truck load, of hay or wood.
- (informal) A Jaguar car.
- Acronym of judge advocate general.
- (derogatory) Ellipsis of jagoff (“an irritating, inept, or repugnant person”).
- (archaic) A leather bag or wallet; (in the plural) saddlebags.
verb
- To cut unevenly.
- To pierce with a sharp object.
- To tease.
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Soon after the Waschke affair had been settled to the satisfaction of all parties, serious trouble had arisen with Jag and Haberecht.
The thick black cloud was cleft, and still The Moon was at its side: Like waters shot from some high crag, The lightning fell with never a jag, A river steep and wide.
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The balance all went for actual votes, and on a day of Democratic landslides they elected “Scotty” Doyle, the ex-tenpin setter, by nearly a thousand plurality—and beginning at five o’clock in the afternoon, and ending at three the next morning, Jurgis treated himself to a most unholy and horrible “jag.”