jag

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a sharp projection or rough point on an edge or surface

   A jag of rock tore the climber's sleeve.

2. 2
   noun

   a short period of excessive activity, emotion, drinking, or drug use

   He went on a late-night spending jag.

3. 3
   verb

   to cut or make an edge into sharp projections

   The broken blade jagged the edge of the cloth.

Circa 1597; originally "load of broom or furze", variant of British English dialectal chag (“tree branch; branch of broom or furze”), from Old English ċeacga (“broom, furze”), from Proto-Germanic *kagô (compare dialectal German Kag (“stump, cabbage, stalk”), Swedish dialect kage (“stumps”), Norwegian dialect kage (“low bush”), of unknown origin.

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