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dags

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noun

A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground.

Examples :

"The colorful tent at the festival was decorated with long, fluttering dags that swayed in the breeze. "

appearance wear style material

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A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.

Examples :

"After a rainy day in the muddy field, the sheep's wool was covered in dags. "

animal agriculture

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verb

To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.

Examples :

"The farmer dags the sheep before summer to keep them clean and prevent flystrike. "

animal agriculture work process

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verb

To daggle or bemire.

Examples :

"After playing in the muddy puddle, the little boy's pants began to dags at the bottom. "

environment nature condition

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noun

Examples :

"The vendor grilled the marinated meat on dags over the open fire at the festival. "

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A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.

Examples :

"The chef used the long, metal dags to roast the chicken over the campfire. "

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A dagger; a poniard.

Examples :

"The museum display featured various historical weapons, including several dags used by knights. "

weapon military war item

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A kind of large pistol.

Examples :

""The sheriff still carried two heavy dags on his belt, a reminder of the Old West." "

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The unbranched antler of a young deer.

Examples :

"While hiking, we spotted a young deer with small, pointed dags instead of fully grown antlers. "

animal body part

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verb

To skewer food, for roasting over a fire

Examples :

"We dags the marshmallows onto sticks before roasting them over the campfire. "

food utensil action

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verb

To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags

Examples :

"The medieval tailor dags the bottom of the tunic to give it a stylish, jagged edge. "

style wear appearance action

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noun

One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance.

Examples :

"Even though Mark is a brilliant scientist, some people consider him a bit of a dags because he always wears mismatched socks and stained lab coats. "

appearance style person

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A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V, E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V.

Examples :

"The project management software visually represents task dependencies as dags, ensuring that no task starts before its prerequisites are completed. "

computing math technology science structure

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noun

A misty shower; dew.

Examples :

"The early morning dags on the grass made my shoes wet on the way to the bus stop. "

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To be misty; to drizzle.

Examples :

"It dags lightly on the windowpane, making it hard to see outside. "

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A mammal, Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding.

Examples :

"The dog barked all night long."

animal organism biology

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Any member of the Family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid.

Examples :

"Scientists study the evolution of dags to understand how domestic dogs are related to wolves and foxes. "

animal biology nature organism

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A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.

Examples :

"We saw three dogs in the park today; two bitches playing fetch and one handsome dags watching them. "

animal biology nature

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noun

A dull, unattractive girl or woman.

Examples :

"She’s a real dog."

appearance person human

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A man (derived from definition 2).

Examples :

""Some of the dags at the pub were getting rowdy and singing loudly." "

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noun

Examples :

"Come back and fight, you dogs!"

character person attitude

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Someone who is morally reprehensible.

Examples :

"You dirty dog."

moral character person attitude

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A sexually aggressive man (cf. horny).

person sex human

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Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.

Examples :

"The carpenter used the small, metal dags to hold the wood pieces together while he glued them. "

device machine technical

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A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet-wheel, to restrain the back action; a click or pawl. (See also: ratchet, windlass)

Examples :

"The mechanic carefully inspected the dags on the winch, making sure they were securely engaged to prevent the boat from sliding backward. "

technical machine part device utility

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A metal support for logs in a fireplace.

Examples :

"The dogs were too hot to touch."

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The eighteenth Lenormand card.

Examples :

"The reader interpreted the meaning of the dags as sadness and loneliness in the querent's life. "

astrology supernatural sign

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noun

Examples :

"I bought two dags for lunch at the baseball game. "

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noun

Examples :

"Everyone thought our team, the dags, would lose, but we surprised them all and won the championship! "

person character society

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(almost always in the plural) Foot.

Examples :

"After a long hike, his dags were aching. "

body part anatomy

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(from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.

Examples :

"My dog is dead."

communication technology electronics

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One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.

Examples :

"The trainer carefully placed the dags along the track to create a safe training path for the young horse. "

sport animal race

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A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.

Examples :

"The movie studio lost a lot of money because both of their big summer releases were dags. "

entertainment media

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noun

Meat from a dog eaten as food.

Examples :

"We visited South Korea this time around, where we ate dog meat for the first time."

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Meat prepared to be given to a dog as food.

Examples :

"My grandmother always saves the leftover scraps from our Sunday roast to make dags for her dog, Lucky. "

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An insult intended to assert hyperbolically that another person has value only as a corpse to be fed to a dog.

Examples :

"After losing the game, the angry coach screamed, "You're all just dags! Worth less than dog food to me!" "

curse language word human character attitude negative