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Definition of stag in English: stagnounPlural stags staɡstæɡ 1A male deer, especially a male red deer after its fifth year. 雄鹿；成年牡鹿（尤指五岁以上的牡赤鹿） Example sentencesExamples - I love to hear the seasonal sounds of migrating geese and I still feel moved by the primeval belly-roars of stags in a Highland glen.
- I camped high in the glen, with a golden eagle and a clutch of red deer stags for company.
- His apartment is filled with expensively bound tomes and corny Victorian paintings of stags at bay.
- Around 70,000 red deer stags and hinds are shot every year out of a total population of around 350,000 animals that has been growing since the Second World War because of increasingly mild winters and a lack of natural predators.
- In the past the number of deer on the estate has been deliberately kept in the thousands in order to make sure that there were plenty of stags available for landowners and their guests to shoot for sport.
- Motorists are being urged to be extra vigilant this month as they drive through West Essex as deer and stags are more likely to stray onto roads as their mating season gets underway.
- Herds of 14 fallow deer are regularly seen in the area north of Braintree, with fine stags among them.
- Maynard Smith is best known for using game theory to explain the jousting matches that one sees among the males of many species, from sticklebacks to sea lions, from stag beetles to stags.
- Red deer stags greeted me on the ridge crest and a buzzard wheeled away over the corrie below.
- Finding good quality meat should be easy in Scotland, but it does depend enormously on the time of year and whether you should be eating stags or hinds.
- Spinning around, the hunter catches a glimpse of a heavy-bodied stag making good his escape over the ridge.
- Too late for midges, too early for snow, the glens and bens echo to the call of stags, the forests are ablaze, nights are chilly enough for you to need a fire, but days are long enough for big walks.
- In autumn the roar of the red deer stags that roam just north of the estate echoes around the castle.
- The hunger of each will be satisfied by the fifth part of a stag, so they agree to co-operate in a project to trap one.
- About twenty metres ahead of him stood a white stag - its brilliant antlers glimmering in the first rays of sunlight which penetrated the trees as it drank form the pool of bright blue water.
- To confirm his thoughts, a stag passed by the clearing in which the pine stood, and was caught by its antlers in thick brambles.
- Monarch of the Glen is nothing less than a heroic portrait, in which the stag transcends the animal world to embody virtues of a higher order.
- Look out for deer, particularly stags, which in late March shed their antlers.
- But there is something absurd about the way they circle this territory like two ancient stags, their antlers locked in some primeval combat, whose origins is long forgotten.
- The stags used in stag hunting are in effect tame farmed deer.
- In the article, a local man described how he witnessed a badly injured stag being pursued by a 20 strong pack of hounds and up to a dozen mounted huntsmen.
- Beyond it great beams of light lit up the depths of Glen Loyne and somewhere down below, red deer stags roared defiance at each other across the glen.
- Some way ahead of us - some miles ahead of us - is a group of around 30 deer that includes three stags of suitable age for culling.
- For future generations, Scotland's cultural and visual identity will be defined not by stags at bay but by Callum Innes's ascetic canvases, Douglas Gordon's films and Christine Borland's skulls.
- 1.1 A turkeycock over one year old.
（一年以上的）雄火鸡 Example sentencesExamples - I like to see mature stags display all their colours to attract the female.
- With ten classes ranging from a stag over 11 kg, to a brace of seasonal turkeys and a butchers presentation class, the judge was given a difficult task.
- It acquires and keeps domestically-raised stags.
- Selective breeding has made turkey stags so broad-breasted, they cannot mate without crushing the female.
- Mick Greenwood took the award for the best hen class while the prize for the best stag went to Jake Walford and the pullet class winner was Dewi Jones.
2usually as modifier A social gathering attended by men only. 只限男子参加的社交聚会 一个男子社交聚会。 Example sentencesExamples - In this version of events, one of the employees is said to have been discussing a forthcoming stag weekend in Krakow, Poland.
- I started with a Eurostar shuttle and since then I have done weddings, private hire, conferences and a stag weekend.
- That's how a bus company director from Southend described the honour of driving England's World Cup-winning rugby heroes on their victory parade following his stag weekend.
- The last target I had set myself was to attend my brother's wedding so, when I received the itinerary of his stag weekend, I knew I didn't have far to go.
- The requirements: Best man Richard is organising the stag.
- My friend Fenner is getting married, and he's having a stag weekend abroad that I can't go to.
- Even my forthcoming stag weekend will be spent on the beach surfing.
- But Lorillard's impudence, and the comfort it promised, did impress many men to order dinner jackets of their own for private stag events.
- Coniston have a problem with their semi-final tie, however, for they have applied for a free date on March 12 when the ties are due to be played, as a lot of the first team will be on a stag weekend.
- Speaking of a drop now and again Me Best Buddy's stag weekend (US: bachelor party) is coming up.
- Sebastian knew I had been unable to attend his stag weekend.
- The worst that befell me on my stag weekend, held in the sedate surrounds of a barge boat, was a hard-boiled egg eating competition.
- You see, in three weeks time, I attend Ex-Boss's stag weekend.
- My brother's stag guests are travelling up on Saturday morning, and the festivities will kick off almost as soon as they get here.
- Trainer Stan Moore is in Portugal attending a stag weekend and this victory will give him even more cause to celebrate as it is his first Listed success.
- We can understand the reluctance of hotels to take on groups of young men intent on a wild stag weekend.
- With former skipper Nigel Durham heading to Cork for his stag weekend, York have opted not to fill the various gaps in their playing strength by taking a week off at first-team level.
- The action takes place on Hal's stag event, an all-day pub-crawl organised by his dour friend Mr Mac.
- So instead the three of us filled our flasks with rum and whiskey and went up to Griffins at the St. George's Club for a stag dinner of fish chowder, wahoo and Corona.
- Most of the squad and some ex-players took advantage of a rare Sunday off to go on veteran prop Andy Precious' stag weekend in the East Midlands city.
- 2.1North American A man who attends a social gathering unaccompanied by a female partner.
〈主北美〉不带异性同伴参加聚会者 they have a rule against stags Example sentencesExamples - Now just 2% of visitors to Temple Bar are stags and hens, and 70% of drinkers there are Irish.
3British Stock Market
A person who applies for shares in a new issue with a view to selling at once for a profit. 〔股票〕〈英〉认购新股后即转手出售以图谋利者；打新股的人 stags made an average profit of £60 each
adverbstaɡstæɡ North American Without a female partner at a social gathering. 〈主北美〉（社交聚会上）无异性陪伴地 很多男孩子不带女伴去参加聚会。 Example sentencesExamples - Even Selene has a date - with Kyle, go figure - and I'm going to be the only one going stag.
- But, if she tried to go stag and meet Jack there, her father would probably decided to go on a road trip, which would be better for the family and soul.
- As more betrothed couples pay for their weddings themselves, guest lists have gotten shorter, and even close friends are expected to come stag.
- She refused to go stag to a Valentines day party so after Ashton left she would have the house to herself, hell!
- If even nice, quiet, very, very shy Natalie Pierce has a date then I mind as well give up now, go stag, and wear a sign that says ‘loser’ around my neck.
- ‘Most everyone's going stag and probably going to pick someone up, you know how it is,’ she shrugged.
- No but you two both came stag and I think it would be nice of you to dance with her since she's alone,
- She had made up her mind last night that she would be okay with the fact that she was going stag to the dance.
- She's really bummed and she doesn't want to go stag.
- She had a hard time believing that someone with the hotness quotient of Kent would go stag.
- Nina and Beth were going stag, and they were going to meet up with Topher, Jill, and their dates at this little Italian dive called Pomodoro.
- She hadn't had enough courage to ask anyone else and had decided the previous day that she would go stag.
- I refuse to go stag, especially with my ankle; I'd just be sitting on the sidelines the entire night.
- The Grumbleweeds maintain the enviable skill of being able to entertain an audience ranging from family to stag to corporate with apparent ease.
verbstagging, stagged, stags staɡ [with object]1British Stock Market
Buy (shares in a new issue) and sell them at once for a profit. 〔股票〕〈英〉认购（新股）后即转手出售 they made profits from stagging each issue Example sentencesExamples - When investors rediscover stagging - applying for shares in new (and typically low quality) companies with the intention of selling them at the first opportunity for a quick profit - then it's time to worry.
- The restriction could limit the opportunity for stagging the stock.
2North American informal Roughly cut (a garment, especially a pair of trousers) to make it shorter. 〈北美，非正式〉截短（衣服，尤指长裤） I stagged them off and burned the ends then tucked them away Example sentencesExamples - Hels was a short, stocky man in a plaid jumper, stagged trousers and boots.
- The men looked alike at first; rough-looking, in their heavy boots, plaid shirts and stagged pants.
OriginMiddle English (as a noun): related to Old Norse steggr 'male bird', Icelandic steggi 'tomcat'. Rhymesbag, blag, brag, Bragg, crag, dag, drag, flag, gag, hag, jag, lag, mag, nag, quag, rag, sag, scrag, slag, snag, sprag, swag, tag, wag, zag Definition of stag in US English: stagnounstaɡstæɡ 1A male deer. Example sentencesExamples - Maynard Smith is best known for using game theory to explain the jousting matches that one sees among the males of many species, from sticklebacks to sea lions, from stag beetles to stags.
- Too late for midges, too early for snow, the glens and bens echo to the call of stags, the forests are ablaze, nights are chilly enough for you to need a fire, but days are long enough for big walks.
- I love to hear the seasonal sounds of migrating geese and I still feel moved by the primeval belly-roars of stags in a Highland glen.
- Some way ahead of us - some miles ahead of us - is a group of around 30 deer that includes three stags of suitable age for culling.
- The stags used in stag hunting are in effect tame farmed deer.
- His apartment is filled with expensively bound tomes and corny Victorian paintings of stags at bay.
- In autumn the roar of the red deer stags that roam just north of the estate echoes around the castle.
- Beyond it great beams of light lit up the depths of Glen Loyne and somewhere down below, red deer stags roared defiance at each other across the glen.
- In the past the number of deer on the estate has been deliberately kept in the thousands in order to make sure that there were plenty of stags available for landowners and their guests to shoot for sport.
- To confirm his thoughts, a stag passed by the clearing in which the pine stood, and was caught by its antlers in thick brambles.
- For future generations, Scotland's cultural and visual identity will be defined not by stags at bay but by Callum Innes's ascetic canvases, Douglas Gordon's films and Christine Borland's skulls.
- I camped high in the glen, with a golden eagle and a clutch of red deer stags for company.
- Herds of 14 fallow deer are regularly seen in the area north of Braintree, with fine stags among them.
- Finding good quality meat should be easy in Scotland, but it does depend enormously on the time of year and whether you should be eating stags or hinds.
- In the article, a local man described how he witnessed a badly injured stag being pursued by a 20 strong pack of hounds and up to a dozen mounted huntsmen.
- Look out for deer, particularly stags, which in late March shed their antlers.
- Around 70,000 red deer stags and hinds are shot every year out of a total population of around 350,000 animals that has been growing since the Second World War because of increasingly mild winters and a lack of natural predators.
- Monarch of the Glen is nothing less than a heroic portrait, in which the stag transcends the animal world to embody virtues of a higher order.
- Red deer stags greeted me on the ridge crest and a buzzard wheeled away over the corrie below.
- The hunger of each will be satisfied by the fifth part of a stag, so they agree to co-operate in a project to trap one.
- Motorists are being urged to be extra vigilant this month as they drive through West Essex as deer and stags are more likely to stray onto roads as their mating season gets underway.
- But there is something absurd about the way they circle this territory like two ancient stags, their antlers locked in some primeval combat, whose origins is long forgotten.
- Spinning around, the hunter catches a glimpse of a heavy-bodied stag making good his escape over the ridge.
- About twenty metres ahead of him stood a white stag - its brilliant antlers glimmering in the first rays of sunlight which penetrated the trees as it drank form the pool of bright blue water.
2usually as modifier A social gathering attended by men only. 只限男子参加的社交聚会 一个男子社交聚会。 Example sentencesExamples - My friend Fenner is getting married, and he's having a stag weekend abroad that I can't go to.
- Speaking of a drop now and again Me Best Buddy's stag weekend (US: bachelor party) is coming up.
- Coniston have a problem with their semi-final tie, however, for they have applied for a free date on March 12 when the ties are due to be played, as a lot of the first team will be on a stag weekend.
- The worst that befell me on my stag weekend, held in the sedate surrounds of a barge boat, was a hard-boiled egg eating competition.
- Most of the squad and some ex-players took advantage of a rare Sunday off to go on veteran prop Andy Precious' stag weekend in the East Midlands city.
- We can understand the reluctance of hotels to take on groups of young men intent on a wild stag weekend.
- But Lorillard's impudence, and the comfort it promised, did impress many men to order dinner jackets of their own for private stag events.
- Even my forthcoming stag weekend will be spent on the beach surfing.
- The last target I had set myself was to attend my brother's wedding so, when I received the itinerary of his stag weekend, I knew I didn't have far to go.
- My brother's stag guests are travelling up on Saturday morning, and the festivities will kick off almost as soon as they get here.
- That's how a bus company director from Southend described the honour of driving England's World Cup-winning rugby heroes on their victory parade following his stag weekend.
- In this version of events, one of the employees is said to have been discussing a forthcoming stag weekend in Krakow, Poland.
- Sebastian knew I had been unable to attend his stag weekend.
- The requirements: Best man Richard is organising the stag.
- So instead the three of us filled our flasks with rum and whiskey and went up to Griffins at the St. George's Club for a stag dinner of fish chowder, wahoo and Corona.
- I started with a Eurostar shuttle and since then I have done weddings, private hire, conferences and a stag weekend.
- You see, in three weeks time, I attend Ex-Boss's stag weekend.
- The action takes place on Hal's stag event, an all-day pub-crawl organised by his dour friend Mr Mac.
- Trainer Stan Moore is in Portugal attending a stag weekend and this victory will give him even more cause to celebrate as it is his first Listed success.
- With former skipper Nigel Durham heading to Cork for his stag weekend, York have opted not to fill the various gaps in their playing strength by taking a week off at first-team level.
- 2.1North American A person who attends a social gathering unaccompanied by a partner.
〈主北美〉不带异性同伴参加聚会者 Example sentencesExamples - Now just 2% of visitors to Temple Bar are stags and hens, and 70% of drinkers there are Irish.
3British Stock Market
A person who applies for shares in a new issue with a view to selling at once for a profit. 〔股票〕〈英〉认购新股后即转手出售以图谋利者；打新股的人
adverbstaɡstæɡ North American Without a partner at a social gathering. 〈主北美〉（社交聚会上）无异性陪伴地 很多男孩子不带女伴去参加聚会。 Example sentencesExamples - She hadn't had enough courage to ask anyone else and had decided the previous day that she would go stag.
- The Grumbleweeds maintain the enviable skill of being able to entertain an audience ranging from family to stag to corporate with apparent ease.
- ‘Most everyone's going stag and probably going to pick someone up, you know how it is,’ she shrugged.
- She refused to go stag to a Valentines day party so after Ashton left she would have the house to herself, hell!
- I refuse to go stag, especially with my ankle; I'd just be sitting on the sidelines the entire night.
- Even Selene has a date - with Kyle, go figure - and I'm going to be the only one going stag.
- She had a hard time believing that someone with the hotness quotient of Kent would go stag.
- But, if she tried to go stag and meet Jack there, her father would probably decided to go on a road trip, which would be better for the family and soul.
- She's really bummed and she doesn't want to go stag.
- She had made up her mind last night that she would be okay with the fact that she was going stag to the dance.
- No but you two both came stag and I think it would be nice of you to dance with her since she's alone,
- Nina and Beth were going stag, and they were going to meet up with Topher, Jill, and their dates at this little Italian dive called Pomodoro.
- As more betrothed couples pay for their weddings themselves, guest lists have gotten shorter, and even close friends are expected to come stag.
- If even nice, quiet, very, very shy Natalie Pierce has a date then I mind as well give up now, go stag, and wear a sign that says ‘loser’ around my neck.
OriginMiddle English (as a noun): related to Old Norse steggr ‘male bird’, Icelandic steggi ‘tomcat’. |