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stag noun- at a social function, a man without a date US, 1905
- Stags could hang around the kitchen or sit on the bench in front of the basement steps which led to the clubroom until they picked up a date. — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 36, 1947
- We also saw other stags talk to girls with whom they hadn’t come in, but with whom they left. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 14, 1951
- Then you rule out the women. That cuts the total down to sixty or seventy, just the stags. — Jim Thompson, The Nothing Man, p. 193, 1954
- Kemp was the only stag. — Hunter S. Thompson, Songs of the Doomed, p. 47, 1959
- In back of us, at the door, they were coming in fast, about three stags to every couple. — Mickey Spillane, Me, Hood!, p. 62, 1963
- a male at a stag party UK
A back-formation from STAG PARTY - For most stags and their parties, this part of the night was the do or die moment before the wedding festivities a week or so down the line. — Iain Aitch, A Fete Worse Than Death, p. 159, 2003
- a pornographic film US
An elliptical form of STAG MOVIE- This film was not the scratched, over-printed, sloppy, jerky amateur production typical of most “stags.” — Roger Gordon, Hollywood’s Sexual Underground, p. 43, 1966
- You could see better stuff in any Times Square sex joint than those stags they were turning out. — Mickey Spillane, Last Cop Out, p. 21, 1972
- guard duty UK, 1943
Military. - Surely, he thought, they must have at least some bloke on stag. — Chris Ryan, The Watchman, p. 28, 2001
- amyl or butyl nitrite UK
Possibly derived from a brand marketing the drug as a male sex-aid. - Street names [...] snapper, stag, stud, thrust[.] — James Kay and Julian Cohen, The Parents’ Complete Guide to Young People and Drugs, p. 144, 1998
- the butt end of a cigarette US
- — Gary K. Farlow, Prison-ese, p. 67, 2002
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