title: Shag
text: # Shag
  
  Shag, or Shagged, or Shagger, or Shagging, or Shags may refer to:
  
  ## Animals
  
  * Shag or cormorant, a bird family
     * European shag, a specific species of the shag or cormorant family
     * Great cormorant another species of the family
  
  ## People
  
  ### Pseudonym
  
  * Shag (artist), stage name of the American artist Josh Agle (born 1962)
  * Shag, a name used on some pop records in the early 1970s by British record producer Jonathan King
  * Shags Horan (1895-1969), American baseball player
  
  ### Name
  
  * Shag (name)
     * Shag Thomas (1924–1982), American professional wrestler
     * Avraham-Haim Shag (1883–1958), Israeli politician
  
  ## Arts, entertainment, and media
  
  ### Music
  
  * The Shag, also known as The Shags (one of many bands of that name) or Shag, a 1960s garage and psychedelic rock band from Milwaukee
  * The Shags (Connecticut band), a 1960s rock band from Connecticut
  
  ### Dance
  
  * Carolina shag, a swing dance that originated in South Carolina in the 1940s and still is their state dance
  * Collegiate shag, a swing dance that originated in the 1920s (popular in the 1930s and 40s)
  * St. Louis shag, a swing dance that evolved from the Charleston
  
  ### Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
  
  * Shag (film), a 1989 film
  * Shag, a fictitious character from Road Rovers
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Shag (fabric), a fabric typically used to make deep-pile carpets
  * Shag (hairstyle)
  * Shag (tobacco), fine-cut tobacco
  * Shag, a British slang term for sexual intercourse
  * Shag, a party and fundraiser for an engaged couple, also known as a stag and doe
  * Shagger (bruise), a temporary bruise caused by kissing, sucking, or biting the skin forcefully enough to burst blood vessels beneath the skin
  * Shagging (baseball), to catch fly balls in baseball outside a game
  * Ball shagger or shag, fabric for the cleaning of golf balls
  