The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word DAGS
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What does DAGS mean?
DAGS noun- A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground.
- A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
- To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.
- To daggle or bemire.
- A skewer.
- A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
- A dagger; a poniard.
- A kind of large pistol.
- The unbranched antler of a young deer.
- To skewer food, for roasting over a fire
- To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags
- One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance.
- A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V, E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V.
- A misty shower; dew.
- To be misty; to drizzle.
- A mammal, Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding.
- Any member of the Family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid.
- A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
- A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
- A man (derived from definition 2).
- A coward.
- Someone who is morally reprehensible.
- A sexually aggressive man (cf. horny).
- Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.
- A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet-wheel, to restrain the back action; a click or pawl. (See also: ratchet, windlass)
- A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
- The eighteenth Lenormand card.
- A hot dog.
- Underdog.
- (almost always in the plural) Foot.
- (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.
- One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.
- A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.
- Meat from a dog eaten as food.
- Meat prepared to be given to a dog as food.
- An insult intended to assert hyperbolically that another person has value only as a corpse to be fed to a dog.