Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Material used for making bags.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of putting into bags.
- noun Filtration through canvas bags.
- noun Any coarse woven fabric of hemp, etc., out of which bags are made, or which is used for covering cotton-bales and for similar purposes.
- noun In the northern counties of England, food eaten between regular meals; now, especially in Lancashire, an afternoon meal, “afternoon tea” in a substantial form.
- noun A method of reaping corn or pulse by chopping it with a hook.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Cloth or other material for bags.
- noun The act of putting anything into, or as into, a bag.
- noun The act of swelling; swelling.
- noun engraving Reaping peas, beans, wheat, etc., with a chopping stroke.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
bag .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun coarse fabric used for bags or sacks
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Examples
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Of all the gross slang they could pick to mix up, tea bagging is definitely the best.
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Why do the fascist wingnuts think tea bagging is necessarily homosexual conduct?
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I don't believe in bagging any game or fish for tropies, but I am not saying those of you who do are wrong.
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All this tea bagging is showing me and the rest of the world is that the right winged, conservative, republican Americans are wasteful, and ignorant ..
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I don't believe in bagging any game or fish for tropies, but I am not saying those of you who do are wrong.
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Was so happy to see Brokeback Mountain bagging Golden Globes yesterday.
Brokeback Mountain Sharon Bakar 2006
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The real trick to successful pheasant hunting lies not in bagging more birds, but in deriving more satisfaction from the ones you do shoot.
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The real trick to successful pheasant hunting lies not in bagging more birds, but in deriving more satisfaction from the ones you do shoot.
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Both girls had been "bagging" - inhaling mothball fumes - after encouragement from classmates.
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Burge, 60, was charged with lying in a civil rights lawsuit when he said he and detectives never engaged in activities such as "bagging" - covering a suspect's head with a typewriter cover until he couldn't breathe.
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