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shaggy dog story 

A long, harrowing tale often beset by misfortunes that the protagonist endures, only for all his/her/its/their victories to be rendered pointless in one move.
The quintessential shaggy dog story goes like this: One day, a man was hiking when he had a terrible fall. Then, he was discovered by a shaggy dog. The man worked through the pain to take the dog home. After tending his injuries and feeding the dog, he discovers in the papers that a rich couple were looking for a shaggy dog, and were offering a reward for anyone who found it. The man then sold everything he could think of to buy a ticket to the owner's residence area. He even paid extra for handling the dog. When the man landed, he scraped just enough money to get a car. He went to the dog's owner's mansion, but missed the gate. When the man got to the door, he and the dog were shot dead by a guard.
shaggy dog story by Intelligence001 November 16, 2020

Shaggy Dog Story 

aka feghoot
Check out my definition of feghoot!
Shaggy-Dog Story is found at Websters' feghoot is not! Man, are the guys at Websters' slow!
Shaggy Dog Story by abracadabra January 18, 2004

Shaggy Dog Story 

Can have three meanings:
1. A simple joke about a boy and his Shaggy Dog, which is made to have no punchline to invoke some kind of laughs
2. A joke that goes on and on just for a bad or boring ending
A movie or a book that is just like (Definition) 2 but for books/movies
1. "I said the shaggy dog story to a couple of fellows, funny to think they actually laughed"
2. "I can't believe I wasted my money just to see a wannabe comedian say a shaggy dog story"
3. "After 757 pages of build-up, the treasure was just a rubber chicken. Talk about a shaggy dog story."

Shaggy Defense 

When someone is caught committing a crime (mainly one sexual in nature, but can refer to all crimes), with overwhelming evidence to prove they did it; in their defense, the culprit denies that they were the one caught doing the crime.

Derived from the Shaggy song "It Wasn't Me", which describes a man being caught having sex with another woman by his wife, and subsequently denying that it was him she actually saw.
When caught on video having sex with a 14 year old girl, R. Kelly employed the Shaggy Defense; he just denied that he was the one in the video.
The god of every universe who is known for destroying planets by only using 1% of his power.
Interviewer: can you give us a example of 1% percent of your power.
Shaggy: remember planet Apollo

Interviewer: No

Shaggy: Exactly
Shaggy by Sickomode_or_MomBamba January 27, 2019
The ultimate being, he is the one who has the divine power of god. He can only use 1% of his power because if he uses his full power, the earth will be destroyed by his pure raw power. Even when he only uses 1% of his power he still kills any foolish mortals in his area.
Fred : We can only film with shaggy for 5 seconds at a time, if we try to film more than that. The entire set will be destroyed and every living person will be shredded to pieces.
Shaggy by Shagboi1 January 28, 2019