Shag or Shags may refer to:

Animals

* Shag or

cormorant Phalacrocoracidae is a family of approximately 40 species of aquatic birds commonly known as cormorants and shags. Several different classifications of the family have been proposed, but in 2021 the International Ornithologists' Union (IOU) ado ...

, a bird family **

European shag The European shag or common shag (''Gulosus aristotelis'') is a species of cormorant. It is the only member of the monotypic genus ''Gulosus''. It breeds around the rocky coasts of western and southern Europe, southwest Asia and north Africa, ma ...

, a specific species of the shag or cormorant family **

Great cormorant The great cormorant (''Phalacrocorax carbo''), also known as just cormorant in Britain, as black shag or kawau in New Zealand, formerly also known as the great black cormorant across the Northern Hemisphere, the black cormorant in Australia, and ...

another species of the family

Persons

Shag (artist) Josh Agle (born August 31, 1962) is an American artist, better known by the nickname Shag. Early life and education Josh Agle was born August 31, 1962, the first of nine children in Sierra Madre, California. He spent his early childhood in Haw ...

, 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 Jonathan King (born Kenneth George King; 6 December 1944) is an English singer, songwriter and record producer. He first came to prominence in 1965 when "Everyone's Gone to the Moon", a song that he wrote and sang while still an undergraduate, ...

* Shags Horan (1895–1969), American baseball player * Shag (name), multiple persons * Shag, fictional character from ''

Road Rovers ''Road Rovers'' is an American animated television series produced by Warner Bros. Television Animation that premiered on Kids' WB on September 7, 1996, and ended after one season on February 22, 1997. It was later shown on Cartoon Network from ...

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 The Carolina shag is a partner dance done primarily to beach music (100–130+ beats per minute in 4/4 time signature). The shag is a recognized dance in modern national and international dance competitions. It became the official state dance of S ...

, a swing dance that originated in South Carolina in the 1940s and still is their state dance *

Collegiate shag The Collegiate Shag (or "Shag") is a partner dance done primarily to uptempo swing and pre-swing jazz music (185-250+ beats per minute). It belongs to the swing family of American vernacular dances that arose in the 1920s and 30s. It is believed ...

, 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

Other uses

Shag (fabric) A shag is a heavy worsted Worsted ( or ) is a high-quality type of wool yarn, the fabric made from this yarn, and a yarn weight category. The name derives from Worstead (from Old English ''Wurðestede'', "enclosure place"), a village in the ...

, a fabric typically used to make deep-pile carpets *

Shag (hairstyle) A shag cut is a hairstyle that has been layered to various lengths. It was created by the barber Paul McGregor. The layers are often feathered at the top and sides. The layers make the hair full around the crown, and the hair thins to fringes ar ...

Shag (tobacco) Shag, also known as baccy, rolling tobacco or loose tobacco, is fine-cut tobacco, used to make self-made cigarettes by hand rolling the tobacco into rolling paper or injecting it into filter tubes. It got its name from the finely cut strands app ...

, fine-cut tobacco * Shag, a party and fundraiser for an engaged couple, also known as a

stag and doe A stag and doe party, stag and drag party, buck and doe party, a jack and jill party, or a wedding social is a Canadian party and fundraiser for an engaged couple. Canada A stag and doe is a cultural event in Canada, popular mostly in Manitoba, ...