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stag
Theme: PARTY
mod. having to do with a gathering for men only.
The party is stag, so Tom and I are going together.Stag parties cease to be fun after a while.
Theme: SOCIAL
mod. having to do with someone going to a party without a date. (Originally said of a male.)
He decided to ignore her and go stag.A bunch of the guys got together and went stag to the dance.
stag
noun
1
at a social function, a man without a date US, 1905.
2
a male at a stag party. A back-formation from STAG PARTY (a party for men only) UK, 2003.
3
a pornographic film. An elliptical form of STAG MOVIE US, 1966.
4
guard duty. Military UK, 1943.
5
amyl or butyl nitrite. Possibly derived from a brand marketing the drug as a male sex-aid UK, 1998.
6
the butt end of a cigarette US, 2002
⇨ stag do; stag night; stag
noun a social event for men only. After STAG PARTY UK, 1965
idiomstaggo stag AmEAmEold-fashioned if a man goes stag to a party, event etc, he goes without a woman:I was going ask Amy to Jim's party, but then I decided I'd just go stag.

stag night

A groom's outing with his male friends before his wedding; a bachelor party. Mark knew that his stag night had gotten out of control when the police arrived.

stag party

A groom's outing with his male friends before his wedding; a bachelor party. Mark knew that his stag party had gotten out of control when the police arrived.

go stag

slang To attend some kind of event without a date. Nah, I'm just going to go stag and dance with my friends.

stag line

dated A line of single men at a dance who do not have dates and who are waiting to ask women to dance with them. She sauntered into the dance hall in a stunning designer dress, catching the attention of every man in the stag line.

go stag

to go to an event (which is meant for couples) without a member of the opposite sex. (Originally referred only to males.) Is Tom going to take you, or are you going stag? Bob didn't want to go stag, so he took his sister to the party.

go stag

Go unaccompanied by a person of the opposite sex to a social event, as in John decided to go stag to his roommate's party, or Some of the girls are going stag to the dance. Although this term originally applied only to men attending an event without a woman companion, it is now applied to women as well. [c. 1900]

stag party

A social gathering for men exclusively, often involving entertainment considered unsuitable for women. For example, They wanted to give him a stag party before the wedding but John wasn't interested. This idiom uses stag in the sense of "a man unaccompanied by a woman." [c. 1850]

go ˈstag

(American English, old-fashioned, informal) (of a man) go to a party without a partner: Our dates were sick and we went stag.

stag

1. mod. having to do with someone going to a party without a date. (Originally said of a male.) A bunch of the guys got together and went stag to the dance.
2. mod. having to do with a gathering for men only. The party is stag, so Tom and I are going together.

stag line

n. a line of dateless men at a dance. The guys in the stag line looked so forlorn. She suddenly wanted to do something to make them all happy.

stag-party

n. a party for men only. (Thought to be raunchy.) They hired a stripper for the stag-party—you know, the kind that jumps out of a cake.

stag line

Unattached men at a dance. Men who had no date for a dance but still wanted to go would stand along one wall and either ask unattached women to dance or cut in on a couple that was dancing. Going stag to a dance had no unpleasant connotation. Not so for unattached females, known as “wallflowers.” True or not, wallflowers were suspected of not being popular enough to attract a date.
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