bags

1. pluralplural of bag
2. often in the phrase 'bags of'A large quantity.

   No need to rush: there's bags of time.

   1 more example

   Please take as many coat hangers as you like. I've got bags.

3. chiefly ChicagoA game similar to beanbag toss, cornhole.

   It may have many names, but depending on where you reside it only has one. ‘Cornhole’ or ‘Bags’ has been in the middle of discussions when it comes to what the popular bag toss game is called.

   2019 July 28, Devin Willems, “Is it ‘Bags’ or ‘Cornhole’? Official governing body tries to settle the debate”, in WFRV

4. slangTrousers.

   ‘Emerson, you beast, you've got on my bags.’

   1908, EM Forster, A Room With A View, Penguin, published 2018, page 123

5. slangvulgarA woman's breasts.

1. indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of bag

present singular third person bagses · participle present bagsing · participle past bagsed · past bagsed · alternative baggs

1. AustraliaIrelandNew ZealandUKTo reserve for oneself.

   Mum bagsed being the priestess who got to dangle Stone over the volcano by his ankles.

   2007, Debra Oswald., Getting Air, page 66

   4 more examples

   So you were thrilled, and we picked out the mare for Harriet, and you bagsed the black, and I had the chestnut, and we all rode away one day.

   2006, Jill Golden, Inventing Beatrice, page 81

   Battered armchairs and a sofa were bagsed first; they were more comfortable than the school chairs that could get hard.

   2008, Kate Dellar-Evans, Best of Friends: The First Thirty Years of the Friendly Street Poets, page 13

   ‘Hey, it′s my turn in the front,’ Kalista called as she realised her brother had bagsed the front seat.

   2009, J. Lodge, Black Mail, page 316

   They used to share the water as kids, and for some reason Irene always managed to bags the first bath; Riva made do with the soapy second.

   2016, Laurence Fearnley, The Quiet Spectacular, →ISBN, page 214

   Synonyms: have dibs on, bagsy

alternative baggs

1. Used to claim something for oneself, especially in the combination 'Bags I'.

   Bags I sit in the front seat!

1. abbreviationacronymuncountableAcronym of beauty, age, goodness, size (“those categories of adjective that occur before the noun in French”).