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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Bulging or hanging loosely.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the appearance of a bag; bulging out loosely like a bag; puffy: as, a baggy umbrella; a baggy face.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Resembling a bag; loose or puffed out, or pendent, like a bag; flabby.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A small plastic bag, as for sandwiches.
  • adjective Of clothing, very loose-fitting, so as to hang away from the body.
  • adjective Of or relating to a British music genre of the 1980s and 1990s, influenced by Madchester and psychedelia and associated with baggy clothing.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective not fitting closely; hanging loosely

Etymologies

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bag +‎ -y

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Presumably back-formation from baggies (the plural), presumably a genericization of the brand name Baggies.

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