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SHAG

When I was a teenager in a small town Virginia in the late 1970s Stevie Nicks (Fleetwood Mack) had a hairstyle, everyone was emulating in my high school.

It was called the shag, the Gypsy and the Gypsy shag haircut.

SHAGGING

When I vacationed in Myrtle Beach South Carolina in the mid 1990's I learned of a dance called Carolina Shagging


In the UK

the term SHAG stands for the sea bird also known as a cormorant

To SHAG and SHAGGING means the sex act.

I'd like to know how shagging became the common phrase for having sex?

And another thing.... in the US it is fine an dandy to tell someone "I'm waiting for my ride" or He's my ride." Don't say that here in the UK. Eyebrows are raised.