Meanings
nounbagsman (plural bagsmen)
plural bagsmen
- UKball gamesA player who scores many goals.
The game’s winning strike arrived in the 65th minute courtesy of Manchester City’s Norwegian bagsman, before Havertz missed the opportunity to level the tie in added time.
2026 April 23, Kedar Bayley, “What happens if Manchester City and Arsenal finish on the same points and goal difference?”, in FourFourTwo, London, retrieved 26 Apr 2026
Origin
From bag (“to take with oneself, to assume into one's score (as in "to bag a goal")”) + -s (“third-person singular indicative present tense suffix”) + -man.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
APA
bagsman. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bagsman
MLA
“bagsman.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bagsman. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bagsman,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bagsman.
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