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Shag
Without the least concern for my own feelings, a former girlfriend used to tell me how she, a BOAC stewardess then, and a certain senior pilot used to shag using a garden swing. She would swing toward him, legs splayed wide, and impale herself on his erection where he stood between the uprights. It struck me as a fine guarantee of injury and introduced me, in the flesh, to the absurd I'd been reading about. Of course, shag is sexual in British eighteenth-century English and in American slang of the 1930s. Now a laborious film called The Spy Who Shagged Me has awakened American speakers to the other meaning again: not leave fast or "book," nor chase nor fab nor groovy, but fuck. I've heard shag off, utterly in line with shag as scram, akin to sod off and bog off and bugger off, though these — anal, coprophilic and anal again — are slower goes. Shag used to also be shag ass, and I begin to detect something shady even in the shag parties of 1960s teenagers, there to fondle one another and experiment carnally.
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Paul West and Nerve.com
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