stag

Plural: stags

Noun

a male deer, especially an adult male red deer
adult male deer
An adult male deer, especially a red deer and especially one in high adulthood versus a young adult.
A young horse (colt or filly).
A male turkey: a turkeycock.
A romping girl; a tomboy.
An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see 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.
An unmarried man; a bachelor; a man not accompanying a woman at a social event.
A social event for men held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom; sometimes a fundraiser.
An informer.
Guard duty.
A stag beetle (family Lucanidae).
The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.

Verb

Verb Forms: stagged, stagging, stags

To attend a social event without a female companion.
attend a dance or a party without a female companion
give away information about somebody
watch, observe, or inquire secretly
To act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks.
To watch; to dog, or keep track of.

Adv

Of a man, attending a formal social function without a date.

Examples

a stag dance; a stag party; a stag bar
He decided to STAG the Words With Friends club meeting, focusing solely on strategy.
My brother went stag to prom because he couldn't find a date.
The stag will be held in the hotel's ballroom.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English stagge, steg, from Old English stagga, stacga (“a stag”) and Old Norse steggi, steggr (“a male animal”), both from Proto-Germanic *staggijô, *staggijaz (“male, male deer, porcupine”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *stegʰ-, *stengʰ- (“to sting; rod, blade; sharp, stiff”). Cognate with Icelandic steggi, steggur (“tomcat, male fox”). Related to staggard, staggon.

Synonyms

betray, denounce, give away, grass, hart, rat, shit, shop, sleuth, snitch, snoop, spy, tell on, bachelor party, buck, shadow, stag do, stag lunch, stag party

Scrabble Score: 5

stag: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
stag: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
stag: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 6

stag: valid Words With Friends Word