Ho-bag

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A woman considered promiscuous. derogatory, slang, vulgar

    "As far as he knew, I was just a ho-bag who makes a habit of screwing random guys on golf courses."

  2. 2
    A term of abuse for an irritating or objectionable person. derogatory, slang, vulgar

    "So there’s someone bothering you, really getting on your case … If it’s a girl, you might call her a ho or ho bag. It stems from whore, but don’t get too literal. Use it in a variety of situations, such as: “God, my teacher’s being such a ho bag.” Or: “That girl is such a ho, look at her scrumpin’.”"

Example

More examples

"As far as he knew, I was just a ho-bag who makes a habit of screwing random guys on golf courses."

Etymology

From ho + bag. First use appears c. 1989, in a Scripps Howard News Service article published in multiple newspapers. See cite below.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.