Shagger vs Stagger - What's the difference?
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One who shags.
# One who has sexual intercourse.
#* 1997 , , Issues 6061-6069,
#* 2006 , , Richard Hill: The Autobiography ,
#* 2007 , , Oliver Harvey, Who Ate All the Pies?: The Life and Times of Mick Quinn ,
# One who catches and returns a ball, usually out of play; one who fetches played balls; one who fetches shot game.
#* 1980 , Ken Dugan, Secrets of Coaching Championship Baseball ,
#* 1983 , Bob Brister, Doves Galore'', '' ,
#* 1995 , Mario Pagnoni, Gerald Robinson, Softball: Fast and Slow Pitch ,
#* 2011 , Jim McLean, Tom McCarthy, The Complete Hogan: A Shot-by-Shot Analysis of Golf?s Greatest Swing ,
One who dances the shag; a jazz dancer.
* 2012 , Renee Wright, Myrtle Beach & South Carolina?s Grand Strand , Explorer?s Guides,
(UK, Australia, colloquial, slang) A popular person; also used as an epithet .
An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.
A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; apoplectic or sleepy staggers.
bewilderment; perplexity.
In motorsport, the difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
sway unsteadily, reel, or totter
# In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
#* Dryden
# To cause to reel or totter.
#* Shakespeare
# To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
#* Addison
doubt, waver, be shocked
# To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
#* Bible, Rom. iv. 20
# To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
#* Howell
#* Burke
Multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly-spaced, times or places (attested from 1856
# To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
# To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
# To schedule in intervals.
As nouns the difference between shagger and stagger
is that shagger is one who shags while stagger is an unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.As a verb stagger is
sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.shagger
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Noun
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- deracinated German, ace journalist and communist spy, compulsive cocktail drinker and serial shagger : the agent of penetration par excellence is engaging in sexual congress with a secretary from the German embassy in the Japanese capital.
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- ‘What do you want to be remembered for, being the best shaggers and drinkers or the best rugby players?’
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- There would be card schools, too, and when we overnighted the shaggers among the lads would be sniffing after everything in a skirt.
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- The shagger is placed in this position to avoid the danger of his being hit by a batted ball.
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- As we arrived at the grainfield a covey of little Mexican boys swarmed in from all directions, waving and yelling and climbing on the bumpers, vying for jobs as bird shaggers . Birds were darting low over the vehicles and somebody got excited and started shooting right there, bringing the kids racing for the fallen birds, because whoever got one had a job for sure.
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- As soon as the outfielder releases the throw to the shagger , a second ball is fungoed and the fielder must react quickly,.
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- He always had a shagger , a caddy who put the shag bag right in front of his feet.
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- The first gathering proved so successful that SOS has expanded to a year-round schedule of events, including annual ten-day Spring Safaris and Fall Migrations, attracting up to 10,000 shaggers at a time, plus weekend gatherings in winter and summer.
Derived terms
* ball shagger, shagger's back, sheepshaggerstagger
English
Noun
(en noun)Stock Car Racing magazine article on stagger, February 2009
Verb
(en verb)- She began to stagger across the room.
- Deep was the wound; he staggered with the blow.
- The powerful blow of his opponent's fist staggered the boxer.
- That hand shall burn in never-quenching fire / That staggers thus my person.
- The enemy staggers .
- He [Abraham] staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief.
- He will stagger the committee when he presents his report.
- Whosoever will read the story of this war will find himself much staggered .
- Grants to the house of Russell were so enormous, as not only to outrage economy, but even to stagger credibility.
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- We will stagger the starting positions for the race on the oval track.
- We will stagger the run so the faster runners can go first, then the joggers.