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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a shag of" is correct and usable in written English, though it may be considered informal or slang.
It can be used in contexts discussing sexual encounters or relationships, often in a casual or humorous manner.
Example: "After a night out, he ended up having a shag of a time with someone he met at the bar."
Alternatives: "a fling with" or "a hookup with".
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A shag of poison ivy and bindweed has spread like a shadow across the grounds.
Twelve years later, Amirpour is having breakfast in a London hotel restaurant, a small, animated figure with a shag of brown-black hair.
Even a weird little dish like turkey schnitzel -- hidden under a shag of watercress -- had the marks of a craftsman behind it.
On a tiny scab of concrete amid a shag of trees and bushes next to a Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus yard, four men were fishing, and one of them had just caught an eel.
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Elina Desaine, a Latvian-born student at Exeter University, won £500 in cash and a year's supply of condoms for her supposedly promiscuous habits – which, it was claimed, included keeping a "shag list" of her "victims" and sleeping with "up to three men a week".
Sax is 48, square-jawed and sturdily built, with a thick shag of side-parted brown hair and a relentless intellect and tireless charisma that leave even his critics exhausted and impressed.
Beneath these 600-year-old sequoia sempervirens the forest floor blooms with California laurel and a dazzling shag of psychedelic green ferns.
The maximum respiratory (lungs + air sacs) volume of a Kerguelen shag of mass (m) equal to 2.6 kg can be calculated as = 0.126×(103×m)1.12 = 842 ml (equation for non-galliform birds, [39]), a value which is close to the ones obtained with Equation 2 for Kerguelen shags (735 882 ml) diving in the 130 m range and neutrally buoyant at 70 80 m.
A few arms will quickly resemble a shag rug because of all the mosquitoes that have landed to feed.
"I've watched you lick cocaine crumbs out of a shag carpet," Christy says.
Forgive the Tofflers their diction, which sometimes reads like the linguistic equivalent of a shag rug.
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