English
jag
see also: Jag, JAG
Pronunciation Noun

jag (plural jags)

  1. A sharp projection.
    • garments thus beset with long jags
    • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, lines 323-7,
      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.
    • 1909, Arthur Symons, London: A Book of Aspects, self-published, p. 3,
      The especial beauty of London is the Thames, and the Thames is so wonderful because the mist is always changing its shapes and colours, always making its light mysterious, and building palaces of cloud out of mere Parliament Houses with their jags and turrets.
    • 1956, C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle, Collins, 1998, Chapter 16,
      Even if you hadn’t been drowned, you would have been smashed to pieces by the terrible weight of water against the countless jags of rock.
  2. A part broken off; a fragment.
    • 1852, Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" section 52 in Leaves of Grass, New York: Modern Library, 1921, p. 77,
      I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runway sun, / I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.
  3. (botany) A cleft or division.
  4. (Scotland) A medical injection, a jab.
Verb

jag (jags, present participle jagging; past and past participle jagged)

  1. To cut unevenly.
  2. (Pittsburgh) To tease.
Noun

jag (plural jags)

  1. Enough liquor to make a person noticeably drunk; a skinful.
  2. A binge or period of overindulgence; a spree.
    • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, page 88:
      ‘People who spend their money for second-hand sex jags are as nervous as dowagers who can't find the rest-room.’
  3. A fit, spell, outburst.
    • 1985, Peter De Vries, The Prick of Noon, Penguin, Chapter 9, p. 165,
      Of course she did not lose her sense of humor (not necessarily to be confused with her laughing fits, which are crying jags turned inside out according to the shrinks).
    • 1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, Simon & Schuster, 2007, Part 4, Chapter 1, p. 396,
      Miles had a cold, he always had a cold, it went unnoticed, went without saying, he had coughing jags and slightly woozy eyes, completely unremarked by people who knew him […]
  4. A one-horse cart load, or, in modern times, a truck load, of hay or wood.
  5. (Scotland, archaic) A leather bag or wallet; (in the plural) saddlebags.
Translations
Jag
Noun

jag (plural jags)

  1. (informal) A Jaguar car.
JAG
Noun

jag

  1. (legal, military) Acronym of judge advocate general


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