:-)
I understood the basketball hoop thing; I lived in Tampa for a couple of years,
but I never heard the shagging off phrase while I was working there.
Chris
On 7 Jun 2012, at 21:20, Rick Beckrich wrote:
> Mea culpa, Chris... On this side of the pond it has dual uses... the sex
> act itself, although usually not in the most romantic of senses, and the
> act of shoo-ing, or ordering someone or something away, or off of
> something.
>
> Maybe it's an age thing. As a kid, I remember the bigger kids "shagging us
> off" of the neighborhood basketball "court." (A hoop without a backboard
> nailed to the the wooden
> post that supported the streetlamp at the corner of each housing block.)
>
> Whoops - I'll bet that's another Yankee thing. [?]
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