No. 3,684 in Dutch
shag
Loose tobacco used for hand-rolled cigarettes.
In a sentence
Kun je wat shag voor me kopen bij de winkel?
Can you buy me some rolling tobacco at the store?
The word 'shag' here refers to rolling tobacco, commonly used in informal contexts.
Ik heb een shag gerookt met mijn vrienden.
I smoked a roll-your-own cigarette with my friends.
In this sentence, 'shag' is understood as a unit of rolling tobacco, implying that the speaker smoked one roll-your-own cigarette.
De vloerbedekking had een dikke shag-structuur.
The carpet had a thick shag texture.
Here, 'shag' is used to describe a type of carpet texture—specifically, one with a deep pile.
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