Shag
# Shag

Shag, or Shagged, or Shagger, or Shagging, or Shags may refer to:

## Animals

* Shag or cormorant, a bird family
   * European shag, a specific species of the shag or cormorant family
   * Great cormorant another species of the family

## People

### Pseudonym

* Shag (artist), stage name of the American artist Josh Agle (born 1962)
* Shag, a name used on some pop records in the early 1970s by British record producer Jonathan King
* Shags Horan (1895-1969), American baseball player

### Name

* Shag (name)
   * Shag Thomas (1924–1982), American professional wrestler
   * Avraham-Haim Shag (1883–1958), Israeli politician

## Arts, entertainment, and media

### Music

* The Shag, also known as The Shags (one of many bands of that name) or Shag, a 1960s garage and psychedelic rock band from Milwaukee
* The Shags (Connecticut band), a 1960s rock band from Connecticut

### Dance

* Carolina shag, a swing dance that originated in South Carolina in the 1940s and still is their state dance
* Collegiate shag, a swing dance that originated in the 1920s (popular in the 1930s and 40s)
* St. Louis shag, a swing dance that evolved from the Charleston

### Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* Shag (film), a 1989 film
* Shag, a fictitious character from Road Rovers

## Other uses

* Shag (fabric), a fabric typically used to make deep-pile carpets
* Shag (hairstyle)
* Shag (tobacco), fine-cut tobacco
* Shag, a British slang term for sexual intercourse
* Shag, a party and fundraiser for an engaged couple, also known as a stag and doe
* Shagger (bruise), a temporary bruise caused by kissing, sucking, or biting the skin forcefully enough to burst blood vessels beneath the skin
* Shagging (baseball), to catch fly balls in baseball outside a game
* Ball shagger or shag, fabric for the cleaning of golf balls
