Baggy
adj, noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A member of the 1980/90s British music and fashion movement. UK
"I said dad you're a shabby / You run around and groove like a baggy / You're only here just out of habit"
- 2 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.""
- 3 Such a bag filled with marijuana.
- 1 Of clothing, very loose-fitting, so as to hang away from the body.
"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."
- 2 Of 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"
- 3 Of writing, etc.: overwrought; flabby; having too much padding. figuratively
"a baggy book"
- 1 not fitting closely; hanging loosely wordnet
Antonyms
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More examples"These pants tend to go baggy at the knees."
Etymology
From bag + -y (adjectival suffix).
Presumably a back-formation from baggies (the plural), presumably a genericization of the brand name Baggies. Also analyzable as bag + -y (diminutive suffix).
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