Etymology

bagism

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Today it means: The practice of wearing a bag over one's body so as to conceal one's physical attributes and force listeners to focus on one's message instead. Full definition →

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The story

From bag + -ism, introduced by John Lennon and Yoko Ono as part of their peace campaign in the late 1960s.

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