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- 1 A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
- 2 an activity that you like or at which you are superior wordnet
- 3 A 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.
- 4 mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats) wordnet
- 5 One's preference. colloquial
"Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music."
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- 6 a flexible container with a single opening wordnet
- 7 An ugly woman. derogatory
- 8 a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes wordnet
- 9 The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
"The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head."
- 10 a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women) wordnet
- 11 First, second, or third base.
"He headed back to the bag."
- 12 a place that the runner must touch before scoring wordnet
- 13 A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
- 14 an ugly or ill-tempered woman wordnet
- 15 A 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}."
- 16 the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person) wordnet
- 17 A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
"the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents"
- 18 the quantity that a bag will hold wordnet
- 19 A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.; An udder, especially the pendulous one of a dairy cow.
"Meronym: teats"
- 20 A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.; The human female breast. plural-normally
- 21 A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig. historical
"[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."
- 22 The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
- 23 A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds. UK
- 24 A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc. in-plural
"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 […]"
- 25 A large number or amount. informal
- 26 In certain phrases: money. countable, slang, uncountable
"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."
- 27 A fellow gay man. US, derogatory, slang
- 28 A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics. slang
- 29 The scrotum. slang, vulgar
- 30 £1000, a grand. Cockney, slang
"Coulda got a bag last year But now I get a bag for a verse"
- 1 To put into a bag. transitive
- 2 capture or kill, as in hunting wordnet
- 3 To take with oneself, to assume into one's score; To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting. informal, transitive
"We bagged three deer yesterday."
- 4 put into a bag wordnet
- 5 To take with oneself, to assume into one's score; To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something. transitive
"the two opposition groups have bagged almost 300 of the 500 seats contested in the election."
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- 6 take unlawfully wordnet
- 7 To take with oneself, to assume into one's score; To steal. slang, transitive
""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.""
- 8 bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge wordnet
- 9 To take with oneself, to assume into one's score; To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest. slang, transitive
"When we hit the club to go and hell-raise / Probably end up baggin' the cocktail waitress"
- 10 hang loosely, like an empty bag wordnet
- 11 To take with oneself, to assume into one's score; To arrest. slang, transitive
"Free bro, free bro, we got bagged for a M"
- 12 To furnish or load with a bag. transitive
"a bee bagged with his honeyed venom"
- 13 To furnish or load with a bag.; To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator. transitive
- 14 To furnish or load with a bag.; To fit with a bag to collect urine. transitive
"The patient was bagged for a urine analysis and stat electrolytes were drawn."
- 15 To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag; To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag. ambitransitive, obsolete
"The skin bags from containing morbid matter."
- 16 To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag; To hang like an empty bag.
"His trousers bag at the knees."
- 17 To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag; To drop away from the correct course. intransitive
- 18 To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag; To become pregnant. intransitive, obsolete
"VVell, Venus ſhortly bagged, and ere long vvas Cupid bread, […]"
- 19 To forget, ignore, or get rid of.
"I may just bag that. I think poets have an obligation to boost the magazines they appear in."
- 20 To laugh uncontrollably. slang
- 21 To criticise sarcastically. Australia, slang
Etymology
From Middle English bagge, from Old Norse baggi (“bag, pack, satchel, bundle”) (whence also Old French bague (“bundle, package, sack”)); related to Old Norse bǫggr (“harm, shame; load, burden”), of uncertain origin.
From Middle English bagge, from Old Norse baggi (“bag, pack, satchel, bundle”) (whence also Old French bague (“bundle, package, sack”)); related to Old Norse bǫggr (“harm, shame; load, burden”), of uncertain origin.
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