Meaning of jag in English

jag

noun [ C ]

/dʒæɡ/ us

/dʒæɡ/

jag noun [C] (PERIOD OF BEHAVIOUR)

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informal

a short period when someone behaves repeatedly in a particular way or does a lot of a particular thing:

a crying/sneezing/coughing jag

She says she's on a health jag.

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He was a sensitive person, prone to crying jags.
Apart from a few late-night chocolate jags, my diet is pretty good.
He began stealing things and then went on an arson jag.
His entire first novel was written during a 90-hour jag.
I've been on a jag lately of making different salad dressing recipes trying to find the perfect one.

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Continually & repeatedly

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Continue & last

jag noun [C] (INJECTION)

Scottish English informal

(UK jab); (US shot)

an injection (= an amount of a drug or vaccine put into the body using a needle):

The doctor gave her a jag of morphine.

I was offered a hepatitis B jag.

an amount of something such as a drug that gives you a particular feeling, especially a feeling of energy, or this feeling itself:

We have a kettle and coffee in our room so we can give ourselves a jag of caffeine when we want.

Diving into cold water is a cheap and easy way of getting an adrenalin jag.

Synonyms

high

shot

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How many people have died of the disease compared to vaccinated people who died as a result of the jag?
You know that feeling when you are inwardly screaming for a jag of coffee?
He was as lively as a toddler on a sugar jag.

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Medicine in different forms

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Energetic and lively

jag noun [C] (SHARP POINT)

a line, shape, or object that forms a sharp point:

A lone jag of lightning sliced through the dark sky.

Far below me I could see moss-covered jags of rocks.

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jagged

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There were thunder clouds, and jags of lightning flashed in the sky.
A dramatic fault line cuts a dark jag across the planet's surface.
Medieval painters showed waves as jags and curves of line.
The line on the gauge was interrupted by spikes, small jags representing pulses.

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Rough, irregular and uneven

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Sharp and blunt

(Definition of jag from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of jag

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But, man, are we riding off on a transportation-spending jag for the ages.

From The Seattle Times

Sunlight blooms around the edges of pulverized concrete and jags of timber, just one of several gaping holes in this makeshift base, a dangerous breach that lures looters at night.

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Closed contours were built in the same manner as open jagged contours with an additional constraint: their segment extremities had to form a closed backbone.

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For example, it can be easily proven that a perimeter jagged in the small scale of local indentations may coincide with a compact shape.

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Fifteen patients were in severe heart failure, in spite of inotropic support (intravenous infusion of dopamine, mean dose of 10 jag/ kg/min).

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Figure 1 displays jagged cutoffs between yes/no coverage decisions for all of the evaluation criteria outlined above.

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A great, jagged tear in her apron and dress revealed her bared shoulder, all blood-smeared.

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With a wild whirl that took her breath, the airplane swung about to go speeding along the side of that jagged ridge.

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Behind them were jagged heaps of crumbling rock, all that remained of the front and side walls.

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Its north coast was particularly rough and jagged.

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Though the summit is jagged and peaked, it contains a level area for building purposes 3000 feet in length and 1200 in width.

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The sky line is jagged, like the walls of a ruined castle.

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Do you see there are three little jags here close together?

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I felt her jagged claws sink into my very brain.

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