Etymology

multibagger

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The story

From multi- + bag + -er; coined by Peter Lynch in his 1988 book One Up on Wall Street, in reference to baseball, where "bags" or "bases" that a runner reaches are the measure of the success of a play.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.