Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A container of flexible material, such as paper, plastic, or leather, that is used for carrying or storing items.
- n. A handbag; a purse.
- n. A piece of hand luggage, such as a suitcase or satchel.
- n. An organic sac or pouch, such as the udder of a cow.
- n. An object that resembles a pouch.
- n. Nautical The sagging or bulging part of a sail.
- n. The amount that a bag can hold.
- n. An amount of game taken or legally permitted to be taken.
- n. Baseball A base.
- n. Slang An area of interest or skill: Cooking is not my bag.
- n. Slang A woman considered ugly or unkempt.
- transitive v. To put into or as if into a bag.
- transitive v. To cause to bulge like a pouch.
- transitive v. To capture or kill as game: bagged six grouse.
- transitive v. Informal To gain possession of; capture.
- transitive v. Slang To fail to attend purposely; skip: bagged classes for the day and went to the beach.
- transitive v. Slang To stop doing or considering; abandon: bagged the idea and started from scratch.
- intransitive v. To pack items in a bag.
- intransitive v. To hang loosely.
- intransitive v. To swell out; bulge.
- idiom bag and baggage With all one's belongings.
- idiom bag and baggage To a complete degree; entirely.
- idiom bag it Slang To cease discussion of an issue: Finally in disgust I told my debating opponent to bag it.
- idiom bag it Slang To bring along one's lunch, as in a paper bag: I don't like cafeteria food, so I always bag it.
- idiom in the bag Assured of a successful outcome; virtually accomplished or won.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.
- n. A handbag
- n. A suitcase.
- n. A schoolbag, especially a backpack.
- n. One’s preference.
- n. An ugly woman.
- n. The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
- n. First, second, or third base.
- n. A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
- n. A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
- v. To put into a bag.
- v. To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
- v. To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
- v. this sense?) (slang, African American Vernacular) To be caught by the police.
- v. To bring a woman one met on the street with one.
- v. To laugh uncontrollably.
- v. To criticise sarcastically.
- v. To provide artificial ventilation with a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
- v. To swell or hang down like a full bag.
- v. To swell with arrogance.
- v. To become pregnant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A sack or pouch, used for holding anything.
- n. A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
- n. A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.
- n. The quantity of game bagged.
- n. A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack.
- intransitive v. To swell or hang down like a full bag.
- intransitive v. To swell with arrogance.
- intransitive v. To become pregnant.
- transitive v. To put into a bag.
- transitive v. To seize, capture, or entrap.
- transitive v. To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To swell or bulge.
- To hang loosely like a bag.
- To grow big with child.
- To put into a bag: as, to bag hops.
- To distend like a bag; swell.
- To secure as game; shoot, entrap, or otherwise lay hold of: as, to bag thirty brace of grouse.
- To make off with; steal.
- To cut with a reaping-hook or scythe: used especially of cutting pease.
- n. A small sack; a portable receptacle or repository of leather, cloth, paper, or other flexible material, capable of being closed at the mouth; a wallet; a pouch: as, a flour-bag; a carpet-bag or traveling-bag; a mail-bag. Specifically
- n. A purse or money-bag.
- n. A small silken pouch in which the back hair of the wig was curled away.
- n. What is contained in a bag; in hunting, the animals bagged or obtained in an expedition or a day's sport.
- n. A sac or receptacle in animal bodies containing some fluid or other substance: as, the honey-bag of a bee.
- n. An udder.
- n. plural The stomach.
- n. plural Trousers.
- n. The middle part of a large haul-seine: the two parts on the sides are called wings.
- n. A flue in a porcelain-oven which ascends on the inner side, and enters the oven high up, so as to heat the upper part.
- n. A customary measure of capacity, generally from 2 to 4 bushels.
- n. In coalmining, a quantity of fire-damp suddenly given off from the coal; also, the cavity from which the gas is emitted: formerly used to include cavities containing a large amount of water.
- n. To dismiss one from one's service.
- n. To cheat.
- n. In base-ball, a base-bag.
- n. A swelling on a boiler-plate.
- n. In leather manufacturing, fullness in the middle of a skin, which prevents it from lying out flat and smooth. It is more marked in large skins.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
- n. a flexible container with a single opening
- v. put into a bag
- v. hang loosely, like an empty bag
- n. an activity that you like or at which you are superior
- n. a place that the runner must touch before scoring
- n. a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)
- n. an ugly or ill-tempered woman
- v. capture or kill, as in hunting
- v. take unlawfully
- n. the quantity that a bag will hold
- n. a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes
- n. the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person)
- n. mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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Is taking a showy suit of clothes out of bag and admiring them and is about to put them on when he hears some one coming and hurriedly puts them back into the bag_.
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Often the term bag-chags (habit) appears as an umbrella term for both tendencies and constant habits.
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I joined the Tea Party because dipping the tea bag is a great stress reliever.
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But when the bag is accidentally put out with the trash, the poor toys are thrust into a series of misadventures.
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What intrigues about this having five "celeb" books to read in my bag is the locations, the timing.
Celebrity memoirs: Simon Pegg; Russell Brand; Susan Boyle; Paul O'Grady; Harry Hill – review
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My best camera bag is a mini-igloo cooler with the logo of some lab equipment supplier with foam rubber lining the bottom. jenjen
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Value: This bag is the second most expensive of those tested, but I feel it's a very good value.
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Anyway, this bag is the first in the 2008 BQL (British Quilt List) Bag Challenge - each month there will be a new bag pattern for us to make (if we've made the previous one) - if you don't finish on time, you miss out on new patterns until you are finished.
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The new bags carry text on the bottom identifying their greenness, This bag is the first generation of sealed, stay fresh coffee bags to include renewable resources in its design.
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The rest of the bag is a foil laminate (plastic and aluminum foil).
hernesheir commented on the word bag
3-letter code for the airport in Baguio, Philippines.
August 27, 2009
bilby commented on the word bag
Used in hippy talk, eg. "What's your bag?" meaning "What sort of things do you do/like?"
April 3, 2008
jennarenn commented on the word bag
"She must have had something going for her; she bagged Marilyn Manson."
"If they brought you Marilyn Manson in a bag, would you actually want to bag Marilyn Manson?"
November 21, 2007
oroboros commented on the word bag
Gab in reverse.
November 3, 2007