jag

4 definitions • 8 examples

a short period when someone behaves repeatedly in a particular way or does a lot of a particular thing:

a crying/sneezing/coughing jag

She says she's on a health jag.

an injection (= an amount of a drug or vaccine put into the body using a needle):

The doctor gave her a jag of morphine.

I was offered a hepatitis B jag.

an amount of something such as a drug that gives you a particular feeling, especially a feeling of energy, or this feeling itself:

We have a kettle and coffee in our room so we can give ourselves a jag of caffeine when we want.

Diving into cold water is a cheap and easy way of getting an adrenalin jag.

a line, shape, or object that forms a sharp point:

A lone jag of lightning sliced through the dark sky.

Far below me I could see moss-covered jags of rocks.