bone vs shag

bone

verb
  • To have sexual intercourse (with). 

  • To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line. 

  • To apprehend, steal. 

  • To study. 

  • To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from. 

  • To nag, especially for an unpaid debt. 

  • To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line. 

  • To put whalebone into. 

  • To fertilize with bone. 

  • To polish boots to a shiny finish. 

noun
  • One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone. 

  • One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music. 

  • The wishbone formation. 

  • A domino or dice. 

  • A cannabis cigarette; a joint. 

  • The framework of anything. 

  • A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates. 

  • Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace. 

  • An off-white colour, like the colour of bone. 

  • A dollar. 

  • Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone. 

  • An erect penis; a boner. 

  • A reward. 

  • A bonefish 

  • A bone of a fish; a fishbone. 

adj
  • Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone. 

shag

verb
  • To have sexual intercourse with. 

  • To perform the dance called the shag. 

  • To make hairy or shaggy; to roughen. 

  • To shake, wiggle around. 

  • To chase after; especially, to chase after and return (a ball) hit usually out of play. 

  • To have sexual intercourse. 

  • To masturbate. 

noun
  • A type of rough carpet pile. 

  • A deliberately messy, shaggy hairstyle. 

  • An act of sexual intercourse. 

  • Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc. 

  • Coarse shredded tobacco. 

  • Any of several species of sea birds in the family Phalacrocoracidae (cormorant family), especially the common shag or European shag, Phalacrocorax aristotelis, found on European and African coasts. 

  • A fundraising dance in honour of a couple engaged to be married. 

  • A casual sexual partner. 

  • Friend; mate; buddy. 

  • A swing dance. 

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