stag
/stæɡ/ noun B2- An adult male deer, especially a red deer and especially one in high adulthood versus a young adult.
- An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox).
- An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
- One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.
- An unmarried man; a bachelor; a man not accompanying a woman at a social event. · a stag dance; a stag party; a stag bar
- A social event for men held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom; sometimes a fundraiser. · The stag will be held in the hotel's ballroom.
- A man who allows his wife to have sex with other men.
- An informer.
Plural stags
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## The Stag, the Wolf, and the Sheep
A STAG asked a Sheep to lend him a measure of wheat, and said that the Wolf would be his surety.
During his reign he made a royal proclamation for a general assembly of all the birds and beasts, and drew up conditions for a universal league, in which the Wolf and the Lamb, the Panther and the Kid, the Tiger and the Stag, the Dog and the Hare, should live together in perfect peace and amity.
## The Sick Stag
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