bag

plural bags

1. countableuncountableA soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.

   Synonyms: sack, tote, poke

2. countableuncountableA container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, briefcases, handbags, backpacks, etc.
3. colloquialcountableuncountableOne's preference.

   Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music.

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   And from then on, his bag was silence. Silence and killing.

   1976, Newton Thornburg, Cutter and Bone, Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 250

   They knew it and sometimes used it as a way to get her to glox on, which was not her usual bag.

   1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 20

   Synonyms: cup of tea, thing, affinity, bent, love, cup of coffee, cup of joe, cup of tea

4. countablederogatoryuncountableAn ugly woman.

   Synonyms: dog, hag

5. countableuncountableball gamesThe cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.

   The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.

6. countableuncountableball gamesFirst, second, or third base.

   He headed back to the bag.

7. countableuncountablepreceded by theA breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
8. countableuncountablemathematicsA collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.

   A bag of three apples could be represented symbolically as {a,a,a}. Or, letting 'r' denote 'red apple' and 'g' denote 'green apple', then a bag of three red apples and two green apples could be denoted as {r,r,r,g,g}.

   Synonyms: multiset

9. countableuncountableA sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.

   the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents

   1. countableuncountableAn udder, especially the pendulous one of a dairy cow.

      Meronym: teats

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      Her bag is coming in nicely now.

      Synonyms: milkbag

   2. countableplural normallyuncountableThe human female breast.

      Synonyms: milkbag, funbag, assets, babylons, balloons, baps, badonkers, bangers

10. countablehistoricaluncountableA pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.

    He had on a suit of Manchester velvet, Lined with white satten, a Bag, lace Ruffles, and a very handsome sword which the King had given to him.

    1774, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, 1 December

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    [H]e had once lost his bag, and a considerable quantity of hair, which had been cut off by some rascal in his passage through Ludgate, during the lord mayor's procession.

    1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC

11. countableuncountableThe quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
12. UKcountableuncountableA unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
13. countablein pluraluncountableA dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.

    With gravel stuck to my cheek, I pulled myself back in the car, looked in the rearview mirror, and saw, looking back at me, a young man with a pale face and a purple bag under each eye. I looked pitiful […]

    2013, Ken Ilgunas, Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom, page 14

14. countableinformaluncountableA large number or amount.
15. countableslanguncountableIn certain phrases: money.

    Secure the bag, secure the bag Grab the stash and hit the trap

    2019 April 4, “Secure The Bag”, Skripteh (lyrics), 1:33

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    What about the time you got shot eight times and then played a show the same week? ¶ Oh yeah that was beautiful, I mean it was fucked up that I was shot, but as far as goin' to get that bag I'm always gonna go get that bag.

    2014 August 28, Sam Wilhoit, quoting OJ da Juiceman, “The Life and Times of OJ da Juiceman”, in VICE, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2023

    A bag refers to money. So to get a bag or even secure a bag means that you are acquiring money.

    [2019 February 6, Rasha Ali, “Get hip to all the slang words and phrases your kids are using and what they mean, okurrr”, in USA Today, McLean, V.A.: Gannett, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 May 2023

16. UScountablederogatoryslanguncountableLGBTA fellow gay man.
17. countableslanguncountableA small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
18. countableslanguncountableCocaine
19. countableslanguncountablevulgarThe scrotum.
20. Cockneycountableslanguncountable£1000, a grand.

    My hoodie cost a bag three, my runners cost a bag two

    2023 June 18, “100mph Freestyle x3”, Clavish (lyrics), 1:30

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    Coulda got a bag last year But now I get a bag for a verse

    2017 May 2, Figure Flows, “Money Right”, in Big Figures ft. Purple, from 1:18

present singular third person bags · participle present bagging · participle past bagged · past bagged

1. transitiveTo put into a bag.
2. To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
   1. informaltransitiveTo catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.

      We bagged three deer yesterday.

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      He was a fine specimen, very large and with a beautiful coat, and I wish I had had the luck to bag him.

      1909, John Claude White, Sikhim and Bhutan, page 55

      "As a matter of fact my thoughts were flashing between Ronda and that man-eating tiger I'm going to bag tomorrow."

      1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XIV, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 147

   2. transitiveTo gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.

      the two opposition groups have bagged almost 300 of the 500 seats contested in the election.

      2023 May 14, Tan Tam Mei, “Thai election: Early results show opposition parties in the lead”, in The Straits Times

   3. slangtransitiveTo steal.

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      "I am sure nobody would mind," said Susan. "It isn't as if we wanted to take them out of the house; we shan't take them even out of the wardrobe." "I never thought of that, Su," said Peter. "Of course, now you put it that way, I see. No one could say you had bagged a coat as long as you leave it in the wardrobe where you found it. And I suppose this whole country is in the wardrobe."

      1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

   4. slangtransitiveAfrican-American VernacularTo take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.

      When we hit the club to go and hell-raise / Probably end up baggin' the cocktail waitress

      2020, “Those Kinda Nights”, in Music to Be Murdered By, performed by Eminem ft. Ed Sheeran

   5. slangtransitiveTo arrest.

      Free bro, free bro, we got bagged for a M

      2021 January 29, JS x Jtrapz, “Straight On Smoke”, 0:54–0:56

      Synonyms: nick

3. transitiveTo furnish or load with a bag.

   a bee bagged with his honeyed venom

   1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number)

   1. transitivemedicineTo provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
   2. transitivemedicineTo fit with a bag to collect urine.

      The patient was bagged for a urine analysis and stat electrolytes were drawn.

      1985, Sol S. Zimmerman, Joan Holter Gildea, Critical Care Pediatrics, page 205

4. To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
   1. ambitransitiveobsoleteTo (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.

      The brisk wind bagged the sails.

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      The skin bags from containing morbid matter.

   2. To hang like an empty bag.

      His trousers bag at the knees.

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      And this uniform did not even fit me so well. But what is a little bagging on the waist and tightness under the arm when you are a gallant member of the British Royal Air Force?

      2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 11, in Small Island, London: Review, page 125

   3. intransitivenauticalTo drop away from the correct course.
   4. intransitiveobsoleteTo become pregnant.

      VVell, Venus ſhortly bagged, and ere long vvas Cupid bread, […]

      1602, William Warner, “The Sixt Booke. Chapter XXX.”, in Albions England. A Continued Historie of the Same Kingdome, from the Originals of the First Inhabitants thereof: […], 5th edition, London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant for George Potter, […], →OCLC, page 148

5. To forget, ignore, or get rid of.

   “Or we can bag that part of it and just go straight inside,” Bolan suggested.

   2007, Don Pendleton, Ripple Effect, page 322

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   I may just bag that. I think poets have an obligation to boost the magazines they appear in.

   1977, The Publication of Poetry and Fiction, page 97

   Well, even if your VCR is still blinking “12:00," I hope you're smart enough to stay inside when it's that cold and just bag that workout.

   1998, Ed Burke, Precision Heart Rate Training, page 78

   I will just bag that. If not in the trade bill, that people believe should not interfere with the President's ability to negotiate a trade agreement, how would it be dealt with?

   1999, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, 105-1 Hearing: Implementation of Fast Track Trade Authority

   'Oh bag that,' said Nelson. 'Do the Edmund stuff — no, cut, we'll do it later, look, it's knocking midnight.'

   2002, Glyn Maxwell, Time's Fool: A Tale in Verse, page 296

   I'll get the sonofa—” “Listen, just bag that punchout shit for the moment. You've got a problem, and don't forget it.

   2014, Harlan Ellison, Spider Kiss

6. slangAfrican-American VernacularTo laugh uncontrollably.
7. AustraliaslangTo criticise sarcastically.