baggy

comparative baggier · superlative baggiest

1. Of clothing, very loose-fitting, so as to hang away from the body.

   He’d made some of the company’s baggiest-ever pants in response, and even baggier ones were in the works.

   2024 March 3, Jonah Weiner, “Why Are Pants So Big (Again)?”, in The New York Times Magazine

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   When the YSL designer finally got to present Sunday, after the show tent pitched on a race course had been deemed unsafe, he had a surprise in store: the longest, bell-bottom pants since the start of the 1970s — and the baggiest since rapper chic.

   2002 January 29, Suzy Menkes, “PARIS FASHION : Wind of Change:New Formality With a Rugged Edge”, in The New York Times

   The only way to safely avoid looking like a hipster, so far as I can tell, is to dress in oversize mesh jerseys bearing the logos of sports teams. Or to wear the blandest, baggiest, beige-est clothes possible, like a middle-aged tourist.

   2013 September 14, Steven Kurutz, “Caught in the Hipster Trap”, in The New York Times

   Synonyms: loose, saggy, relaxed, full, loose, loose-fitting, pouchy, saggy

2. entertainmentOf or relating to a British music genre of the 1980s and 1990s, influenced by Madchester and psychedelia and associated with baggy clothing.

   Pop historian Jon Savage listens to the best of the Stone Roses and their contemporaries – from Baby Ford to the Sabres of Paradise – and creates the perfect set of baggy playlists

   2011 October 18, Jon Savage, “Stone Roses reunion: three baggy playlists”, in The Guardian

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   The Birmingham band – now a five-piece after multi-instrumentalist James Balmont joined them – have ditched the loose and baggy guitar pop of 2013’s Where the Heaven Are We? in favour of psych-pop that contorts itself into pulsing Balearic acid house and motorik rhythms.

   2015 October 1, Tshepo Mokoena, “Swim Deep: Mothers review – baggy indie kids embrace psych-pop”, in The Guardian

3. figurativelyOf writing, etc.: overwrought; flabby; having too much padding.

   a baggy book

plural baggies

1. UKA member of the 1980/90s British music and fashion movement.

   I said dad you're a shabby / You run around and groove like a baggy / You're only here just out of habit

   1990, “Kinky Afro”, in Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches, performed by Happy Mondays

plural baggies · alternative baggie

1. A small plastic bag, as for sandwiches.

   2008 March 6, Kristen Hinmen, "News Real: Seeing Red", Riverfront Times volume 32 number 10, page 10, In an accompanying affidavit, Apazeller reported that Onstott "has entered the kitchen with a handful of cocaine and asked for a plastic baggy."

2. Such a bag filled with marijuana.