shingles Definition

an acute viral inflammation of the sensory ganglia of spinal and cranial nerves that is associated with a vesicular eruption and neuralgic pains and is caused by reactivation of the herpesvirus causing chicken pox —called also herpes zoster, zoster

a small thin piece of building material often with one end thicker than the other for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building

a small signboard especially designating a professional office —used chiefly in the phrase hang out one's shingle

a woman's haircut with the hair trimmed short from the back of the head to the nape

to cover with or as if with shingles

to bob and shape (the hair) in a shingle

to lay out or arrange so as to overlap

coarse rounded detritus or alluvial material especially on the seashore that differs from ordinary gravel only in the larger size of the stones

a place strewn with shingle