- a male deer compare buck, doe, hartTopics Animalsc2Oxford Collocations DictionaryStag is used before these nouns:
- party
Word OriginMiddle English (as a noun): related to Old Norse steggr ‘male bird’, Icelandic steggi ‘tomcat’.Definitions on the go
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Idioms
See stag in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarygo stag
- (North American English, old-fashioned, informal) (of a man) to go to a party without a partner
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