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Definition:
3. (Com.) A kind of prepared tobacco cut fine.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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2. Coarse shredded tobacco.

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When you pass Bradley's, would you ask him to send up a pound of the strongest shag tobacco?

Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
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Melchett: [...] Well then, Bob, I'll leave you two together, why don't you get to know each other, play a game of cribbage, have a smoke, something like that. They tell me that Captain Blackadder has rather a good line in rough shag. Um, I'm sure he'd be happy to fill your pipe. Carry on! [exits]

BBC. Blackadder, season 4: Major Star
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