Shag or Shags may refer to:

Animals

  • Shag or cormorant, a bird family
  • European shag, a specific species of the shag or cormorant family
  • Great cormorant another species of the family

Persons

  • Shag (artist), 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
  • Shags Horan (1895–1969), American baseball player
  • Shag (name), multiple persons
  • Shag, fictional character from Road Rovers

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, a swing dance that originated in South Carolina in the 1940s and still is their state dance
  • Collegiate shag, 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 fabric typically used to make deep-pile carpets
  • Shag (hairstyle)
  • Shag (tobacco), fine-cut tobacco
  • Shag, a party and fundraiser for an engaged couple, also known as a stag and doe <!--this is NOT the animals - please do not disambiguate to them-->

See also

  • Shag Island (disambiguation)
  • Shag Rocks (disambiguation)
  • Shaggy (disambiguation)
  • The Shaggs
  • Shagging (baseball), the practice of chasing and catching fly balls as a part of baseball batting practice