Crossword clues for sagging
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sag \Sag\ (s[a^]g), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Sagging.] [Akin to Sw. sacka to settle, sink down, LG. sacken, D. zakken. Cf. Sink, v. i.]
To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or cable supported by its ends sags, though tightly drawn; the floor of a room sags; hence, to lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position; as, a building may sag one way or another; a door sags on its hinges.
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Fig.: To lose firmness or elasticity; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced. [R.]
The mind I sway by, and the heart I bear, Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.
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To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily.
To sag to leeward (Naut.), to make much leeway by reason of the wind, sea, or current; to drift to leeward; -- said of a vessel.
--Totten.
Sagging \Sag"ging\, n. A bending or sinking between the ends of a thing, in consequence of its own, or an imposed, weight; an arching downward in the middle, as of a ship after straining. Cf. Hogging.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of something that sags. 2 A manner of wearing pants or shorts below the waist, revealing some or all of the underwear. vb. (present participle of sag English)
WordNet
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Wikipedia
Sagging is a manner of wearing trousers or jeans which sag so that the top of the trousers or jeans are significantly below the waist, sometimes revealing much of the underwear.
Sagging is predominantly a male fashion. Women's wearing of low-rise jeans to reveal their G-string underwear (the " whale tail") is not generally described as sagging. A person wearing sagging trousers is sometimes called a "sagger", and in some countries this practice is known as "low-riding". It has become popular since the popularity of wearing brightly colored and patterned " boxer shorts".
Sagging first peaked in popularity during the 1990s, and has recently made a comeback in the 2010s, with celebrities like Justin Bieber, Liam Payne, Ross Lynch and more bringing back the fashion trend. Sagging in the 1990s usually focused on baggy trousers with plaid boxers, but in the 2010s sagging has become popular with skinny jeans and branded boxer-briefs.
Sagging may refer to:
- Sagging (fashion), a fashion trend for wearing pants below the waist to expose one's underwear
- Sagging (Naval), the stress a ship is put under when it passes over the trough of a wave
- Ptosis (breasts), the laxing of breast's structures due to aging
Usage examples of "sagging".
The eyes were still there, behind sagging lids, the teeth visible behind the drooping lips.
She was thinking of seeing the long, sagging bodies of the security guards being dragged away by their arms and feet, to be buried in some shallow, unmarked grave in the wet, lonely hills.
I fixed that thought in my heart to prop up my sagging enthusiasm for the task and left the tower top.
His flesh barely coated his bones, and his scaled skin was tattered and sagging like badly sewn garments.
Her hands are red, but the sagging flesh upon her arms has the hue and polish of ivory.
Strength sagging, Adira laid back on pine needles and watched stars wink on in a perfect autumn night.
Pete managed a croak, his limbs sagging as he gaped at the knife handle protruding from his chest.
He wore a gray business suit, double-breasted, with enormous sagging lapels.
The man who called himself Bors realized as he listened that his mouth was sagging open.
The prisoner in the fancy coat was sagging against the iron grille of his cell, his belt looped around the bars and then around his neck.
A three-foot-high picket fence, sagging in places, separated the scraggly, minuscule patch of lawn from the broken sidewalk.
The headless thing draped across the casket did not move, save to shrivel slightly, sagging down with a faint sound that might have been a moan of disappointment .
Hawkril time to dive aside, and the healer time to throw himself facedown behind its groaning, sagging branches.
Embra was half sitting, half sagging among the carvings along the ornate balcony rail, a trickle of blood falling from her open mouth.
Metal pegs were screwed into the wall for clothes, with a sagging pink curtain that pulled across to hide them.