Doesn't hold up well

The answer

SAGS

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SAGS answer page.

Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2007; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SAGS

Every other clue in this collection answered by SAGS, most used first.

• Droops - used 308 times, most recently in 2026
• Gives in to gravity - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Loses firmness - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Hangs low - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Slumps - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• Succumbs to gravity - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Yields to gravity - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Declines - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
• Hangs loosely - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Hangs down - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Wilts - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Loses rigidity - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
• Goes limp - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Hangs loose - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Loses elasticity - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Droops down - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Flags - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Loses energy - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Loses muscle tone - used 6 times, most recently in 2013

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• ___-do-well - NEER, used 511 times
• As well - ALSO, used 343 times
• "___ Well That Ends Well" - ALLS, used 158 times
• Well-ventilated - AIRY, used 129 times
• Make well - HEAL, used 83 times
• Hold sway - RULE, used 77 times

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