Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A container of flexible material, such as paper, plastic, or leather, that is used for carrying or storing items.
- noun A handbag; a purse.
- noun A piece of hand luggage, such as a suitcase or satchel.
- noun A pouchlike or sagging organ or part of the body, such as a cow's udder.
- noun An object that resembles a pouch.
- noun Nautical The sagging or bulging part of a sail.
- noun The amount that a bag can hold.
- noun An amount of game taken or legally permitted to be taken.
- noun Baseball A base.
- noun Slang An area of interest or skill.
- noun Slang A woman considered ugly or unkempt.
- intransitive verb To put into a bag.
- intransitive verb To cause to bulge like a pouch.
- intransitive verb To capture or kill as game.
- intransitive verb To gain; acquire.
- intransitive verb To capture or arrest.
- intransitive verb To accomplish or achieve.
- intransitive verb To fail to attend purposely; skip.
- intransitive verb To stop doing or considering; abandon.
- intransitive verb To terminate the employment of.
- intransitive verb To pack items in a bag.
- intransitive verb To hang loosely.
- intransitive verb 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) To cease participating in an activity.
- idiom (bag it) To bring along one's lunch, as in a paper bag.
- idiom (in the bag) Assured of a successful outcome; virtually accomplished or won.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cut with a reaping-hook or scythe: used especially of cutting pease.
- noun In base-ball, a base-bag.
- noun A swelling on a boiler-plate.
- noun 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.
- 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.
- noun 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
- noun A purse or money-bag.
- noun A small silken pouch in which the back hair of the wig was curled away.
- noun What is contained in a bag; in hunting, the animals bagged or obtained in an expedition or a day's sport.
- noun A sac or receptacle in animal bodies containing some fluid or other substance: as, the honey-bag of a bee.
- noun An udder.
- noun plural The stomach.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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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_.
New Irish Comedies Lady Gregory 1892
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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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Often the term bag-chags (habit) appears as an umbrella term for both tendencies and constant habits.
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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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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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I joined the Tea Party because dipping the tea bag is a great stress reliever.
Think Progress » Tea Party Movement As Popular As Socialism 2010
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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 Euan Ferguson 2010
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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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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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They calculated the difference between each person’s predicted brain age and their chronological age — known as the brain age gap (BAG) and used by researchers as a marker of brain ageing.
How fast your brain ages is affected by these 64 genes Miryam Naddaf 2025
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They calculated the difference between each person’s predicted brain age and their chronological age — known as the brain age gap (BAG) and used by researchers as a marker of brain ageing.
How fast your brain ages is affected by these 64 genes Miryam Naddaf 2025
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Whether it’s a wildfire, a hurricane, a flood, or any number of other emergencies, a fully stocked bag of emergency gear (commonly referred to as a “ready bag,” “go bag,” or “bug-out bag”) allows you and your family to quickly evacuate to a shelter or other secure location without forgetting any basic survival supplies and tools.
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Whether you call it a bug-out bag, go bag, ready bag, to-go bag, scram bag, grab bag, or GOOD (“get out of Dodge”) bag, the important part is to have it “pre-prepared, in your home, ready to grab at any given moment,” according to survival instructor Creek Stewart (video).
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Whether it’s a wildfire, a hurricane, a flood, or any number of other emergencies, a fully stocked bag of emergency gear (commonly referred to as a “ready bag,” “go bag,” or “bug-out bag”) allows you and your family to quickly evacuate to a shelter or other secure location without forgetting any basic survival supplies and tools.
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Whether it’s a wildfire, a hurricane, a flood, or any number of other emergencies, a fully stocked bag of emergency gear (commonly referred to as a “ready bag,” “go bag,” or “bug-out bag”) allows you and your family to quickly evacuate to a shelter or other secure location without forgetting any basic survival supplies and tools.
oroboros commented on the word bag
Gab in reverse.
November 3, 2007
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
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
hernesheir commented on the word bag
3-letter code for the airport in Baguio, Philippines.
August 27, 2009
bilby commented on the word bag
Compare etymology of budget.
May 1, 2024