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Definition of stag noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

stag

noun
 
/stæɡ/
 
/stæɡ/
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  1. a male deer compare buck, doe, hartTopics Animalsc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryStag is used before these nouns:
    • party
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    Word OriginMiddle English (as a noun): related to Old Norse steggr ‘male bird’, Icelandic steggi ‘tomcat’.
Idioms
go stag
  1. (North American English, old-fashioned, informal) (of a man) to go to a party without a partner
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