Stag vs Scag - What's the difference?
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An adult male deer.
A colt, or filly.
(by extension, obsolete) A romping girl.
An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – called also a bull seg. See the Note under ox.
An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.
The European wren, .
An unmarried male, a bachelor; a male not accompanying a female at a social event.
A social event for males held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom, sometimes a fund-raiser.
(British) To act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks.
To watch; to dog, or keep track of.
Of a man, attending a formal social function without a date.
(slang, uncountable) heroin
(slang, countable, pejorative) A woman of loose morals.
(computing) To destroy the data on a disk, either by corrupting the filesystem or by causing media damage.
As nouns the difference between stag and scag
is that stag is an adult male deer while scag is heroin.As verbs the difference between stag and scag
is that stag is to act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks while scag is to destroy the data on a disk, either by corrupting the filesystem or by causing media damage.As an adverb stag
is of a man, attending a formal social function without a date.stag
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal), (l) (Scotland), (l), (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The stag will be held in the hotel's ballroom
Synonyms
* (social event) bachelor party (US''), stag do (''UK informal ), stag partyDerived terms
* stag beetle * stag do * stag night * stag partyVerb
(stagg)Adverb
(-)- My brother went stag to prom because he couldn't find a date.
See also
* bachelorette party, hen party (Webster 1913)Anagrams
* * *scag
English
Alternative forms
* skagNoun
Verb
- "That last power hit scagged the system disk."