n.
- a fully adult male deer.
▸an adult male turkey.
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[as modifier]
denoting a social gathering attended by men only.
▸chiefly N. Amer. a man who attends a social gathering unaccompanied by a female partner.
- Brit. Stock Exchange a person who applies for shares in a new issue with a view to selling at once for a profit.
adv.
N. Amer. without a female partner at a social gathering.
v.
(stags, stagging, stagged)
- Brit. Stock Exchange buy (shares in a new issue) and sell them at once for a profit.
- N. Amer. informal roughly cut (trousers) off short.
Etymology
ME: rel. to ON steggr ‘male bird’.