Definition of "ag"

ag¹

/æɡ/

noun
1. (chiefly in compounds) Clipping of agriculture.
  Quotations
  Even the most ag-centric member of the Agriculture Committee […]
  2014, Ferd Hoefner, quoted in Jennifer Steinhauer, “Farm Bill Reflects Shifting American Menu and a Senator’s Persistent Tilling”, NYTimes.com (2014 March 8)
  […] fruits and vegetables, oddly referred to in ag-speak as specialty crops, […]
  2014 March 8, Jennifer Steinhauer, “Farm Bill Reflects Shifting American Menu and a Senator’s Persistent Tilling”, NYTimes.com

ag²

noun
countable and uncountable, plural ags
1. (construction) Clipping of aggregate (small rocks mixed into concrete).

ag³

/ax/

interjection
1. (South Africa) Expressing annoyance, remorse, surprise etc.; oh, ah.
  Quotations
  Ag pleez Deddy won't you take us to the wrestling / We wanna see an ou called Sky High Lee
  1962, Jeremy Taylor (lyrics and music), “Ag Pleez Deddy”
  ‘Ag, fuck it,’ he said. ‘Let bygones be bygones, man.’
  1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 88
  Finally, after placing four books on the desk, he turned to a sheepish Kathy and said, ‘Ag, there's nothing wrong with these desks,’ and walked out.
  1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus, published 2010, page 491

ag⁴

adverb
1. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of again.

ag⁵

noun
plural ags
1. Alternative letter-case form of AG (“aggressive (butch)”)
  Quotations
  new forms of female masculinity are exploding, ranging from butches, dykes, and studs to transmen, FTMs, ags, genderqueers, individuals masculine-of-center, and many more. Transgender men and masculine women can make their own movies […]
  2016 February 26, Laura Horak, Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934, Rutgers University Press, page 224
  I don't know what I'd do without them (smiles) Sometimes, I wonder why studs/ag's/butches/transguys be grilling one another in the club. I mean, in my mind, I'm like Why would you hate someone who look like you, act like you, […]
  2016 June 10, Roberta Uno, Monologues for Actors of Color: Men, Routledge, page 85
  The context around stud enables us to understand its meaning among the W4W advertisers: Seeking lesbian stud, butch, ag, or tomboish women ONLY I'm a single stud (on the soft side) slim body type, tattoos, cute face, and great smile […]
  2017 July 31, Eric Friginal, Studies in Corpus-Based Sociolinguistics, Routledge