Definitions for jags

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jags jag

Spelling: [jag]

IPA: /dʒæg/

Jags is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in jags (agjs).

Definitions for jags

noun

1. a sharp projection on an edge or surface.
2. a period of unrestrained indulgence in an activity; spree; binge:
3. a state of intoxication from liquor.
4. Northern, North Midland, and Western U.S. a load, as of hay or wood.

verb (used with object)

1. to cut or slash, especially in points or pendants along the edge; form notches, teeth, or ragged points in.

verb (used without object)

1. to move with a jerk; jog.

Origin of jags

1350-1400; late Middle English jagge (noun), jaggen (v.), of obscure origin

Examples for jags

You'll be headed into one of your four-day jags, and you know it.

Prescott flaunted the perks of office, being dubbed “Two jags Prescott” because he owned two Jaguar luxury sedans.

And two brass-bands, and recitations and flags and jags and grub to follow waiting for you?'

What should I say of their doublets with pendant codpieces on the breast full of jags and cuts, and sleeves of sundry colours?

I envied them; they fancied I looked askance at their rags and jags.

In six months she'd be a scare-crow, 'ands like sut, and 'air all jags.

They were clad in "rags and jags," and the face of the eldest was in "jags" also.

Later on, I hustled about gettin' out voters who had jags on or who were too lazy to come to the polls.

My dress showed no stain, the weather had not battered it; there was no rent, no rags and jags.

She points at the grizzly rocks, with their jags and spear-points.