jag

noun12

1. •
   A sharp projection.

   • 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. — 1798
2. •
   A binge or period of overindulgence; a spree.

   • Consider, the pessimists argue, the vast number of plays which it is only possible to sit through with the assistance of what Ella Wheeler Wilcox would call a mild jag. — 1919
3. •
   A fit, spell, outburst.

   • 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). — 1985
4. •
   (Scotland) A medical injection, a jab.
5. •
   (dialect) A thorn from a bush (see jaggerbush).
6. •
   Enough liquor to make a person noticeably drunk; a skinful.
7. •
   (dialect, offensive) Ellipsis of jagoff (“an irritating, inept, or repugnant person”).
8. •
   A flap, a tear in a clothing
9. •
   A cleft or division.
10. •
    A part broken off; a fragment.

    • some Jaggs will suffice to be recited — 1693
11. •
    A one-horse cart load, or, in modern times, a truck load, of hay or wood.
12. •
    (Scotland, no longer used) A leather bag or wallet; (in the plural) saddlebags.

verb3

1. •
   To cut unevenly.

   • On the Friday […] we had been playing tennis and in some way Geoffrey jagged a finger nail so that it kept catching in his things whenever he touched it. — 1934
2. •
   (Scotland, Northern-England) To pierce with a sharp object.
3. •
   To tease.

noun1

1. •
   (US) Acronym of judge advocate general.

   • Of the three JAGs who were dismissed, I know Lt. Gen. Charles Plummer and worked with him for more than three years. — 2025

noun1

1. •
   (informal) A Jaguar car.

   • "One of the ticket collectors at our local station," observed Mr. Fiennes, "has a Jag." — 1960