Meaning of Wag | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An oscillating movement.
2. A wife or girlfriend of a sports star or other celebrity, originally and especially of an association football player.
   Ireland, informal
3. Acronym of wild-assed guess; a rough estimate.
   US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, informal, slang
4. A witty person.
5. Acronym of women's artistic gymnastics.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of

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Examples

“The wag of my dog's tail expresses happiness.”

“Was not my Lord The veryer Wag o'th' two?”

“But being a bit of a wag, and relishing a good joke amazingly, he concluded to have a little fun, and at the same time learn his friend a lesson concerning his negligent custom.”

““A nice, juicy steak,” he is said to have called for, “French fries, apple pie and a cup of coffee.” It is probable that he really said “a coff of cuppee,” however, as he was a wag of the first water and loved a joke as well as the next king.”

“By Wednesday it had already won art-world notoriety, and on Saturday it achieved a public visibility that any artist would envy, after a self-promoting wag tore the banana off the wall and gobbled it up.”

“Many people can't work from home - as one wag observed: "Well, I would, but the wife doesn't like me laying tarmac in the front room!"”

“The World Cup WAGs are a good example of this. The younger girls, nicknamed the ‘hen-night crowd’ and led by Colleen McLoughlin, dance on tables and drink until the early hours while No. 1 WAG Victoria Beckham remains aloof, dining sedately with Ashley Cole’s fiancee, Cheryl Tweedy.”

“In Wimbledon, the tennis WAGs and - just as excitingly - HABs (Husbands and Boyfriends) have been appearing courtside, enthusiastically cheering on their beloved other halves with a degree of style.”

“They looked her up online and soon began following Ms. Riddle on social media, where she shares her life as a tennis WAG — an acronym for “wives and girlfriends,” popularized in Britain in the mid-2000s to describe, disparagingly, a group of preening, partying women attached to soccer players.”

“WAGs have taken on a second life in the American sports world, linked to basketball, football and, more recently, Formula 1 and tennis.”

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