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bag

  • /bæɡ/ US, UK
  • /baɡ/ British, Southern, Standard
  • /baːɡ/ British, Southern, Standard
  • /baɡ/ Northern England, Scotland
  • /bæːɡ/ Australia
  • /bɛɡ/ New Zealand
  • /beɪ̯ɡ/

Sounds like beg (pre-/ɡ/-tensing) · Rhymes with -æɡ

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Etymology tree

Old Norse baggibor.?

Old French baguebor.?

Middle English bagge

English bag

Inherited 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.

noun bags

  1. countable, uncountable 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. countable, uncountable 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.
  3. colloquial, countable, uncountable One's preference. Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music.
  4. countable, derogatory, uncountable An ugly woman.
  5. countable, uncountable The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base. The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.
  6. countable, uncountable First, second, or third base. He headed back to the bag.
  7. countable, uncountable A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
  8. countable, uncountable 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}.
  9. countable, uncountable A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance. the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents
  10. countable, uncountable An udder, especially the pendulous one of a dairy cow. Meronym: teats
  11. countable, plural normally, uncountable The human female breast.
  12. countable, historical, uncountable A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig. [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.
  13. countable, uncountable The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
  14. UK, countable, uncountable A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
  15. countable, in plural, uncountable A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc. 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 […]
  16. countable, informal, uncountable A large number or amount.
  17. countable, slang, uncountable In certain phrases: money. 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.
  18. US, countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable A fellow gay man.
  19. countable, slang, uncountable A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
  20. countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar The scrotum.
  21. Cockney, countable, slang, uncountable £1000, a grand. Coulda got a bag last year But now I get a bag for a verse

verb bags · bagging · bagged

  1. transitive To put into a bag.
  2. informal, transitive To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting. We bagged three deer yesterday.
  3. transitive To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something. the two opposition groups have bagged almost 300 of the 500 seats contested in the election.
  4. slang, transitive To steal. "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
  5. slang, transitive To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest. When we hit the club to go and hell-raise / Probably end up baggin' the cocktail waitress
  6. slang, transitive To arrest. Free bro, free bro, we got bagged for a M
  7. transitive To furnish or load with a bag. a bee bagged with his honeyed venom
  8. transitive To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
  9. transitive To fit with a bag to collect urine. The patient was bagged for a urine analysis and stat electrolytes were drawn.
  10. ambitransitive, obsolete To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag. The skin bags from containing morbid matter.
  11. To hang like an empty bag. His trousers bag at the knees.
  12. intransitive To drop away from the correct course.
  13. intransitive, obsolete To become pregnant. VVell, Venus ſhortly bagged, and ere long vvas Cupid bread, […]
  14. 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.
  15. slang To laugh uncontrollably.
  16. Australia, slang To criticise sarcastically.

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