bag
Bag is defined as a container that can store items or be used to carry items.
(noun)- An example of a bag is a suitcase used on a trip.
- An example of a bag is Hershey kisses purchased in a plastic sack.
The definition of bag is a woman who is ugly.
(noun)An example of a bag is a woman with warts, greasy hair and missing teeth.
Bag means to stick out or to droop.
(verb)An example of bag is a shirt that is too large and hangs on a person.
Bag is to move something into a sack.
(verb)An example of bag is to put shopping items into a sack.
To bag is to succeed when competing.
(verb)An example of bag is when a person wins every running event at track and field day.
See bag in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- a nonrigid container made of fabric, paper, leather, etc., with an opening at the top that can be closed; sack or pouch
- a piece of hand luggage; suitcase
- a woman's handbag or purse
- a container for game
- the amount of game caught or killed
- a bagful
- anything shaped like a bag
- any thing or part shaped or bulging like a bag: bags under the eyes, bags at trouser knees
- an udder or similar pouchlike membrane or sac
- Brit., Informal trousers
- ☆ Slang one's special sphere of interest, milieu, talent, obsession, etc.
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Origin: < baggage, sense
Slang an unattractive woman - Baseball a base
Origin: ME bagge < ON baggi
transitive verb bagged, bagging
- to make bulge
- to enclose within a bag
- to seize; capture
- to kill in or as in hunting
- Slang to obtain or collect
- Slang to quit, forgo, or give up on: I bagged retail for a sales jobalso in the phrase bag it!
intransitive verb
- to swell like a full bag
- to hang loosely
See bag in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- a. A container of flexible material, such as paper, plastic, or leather, that is used for carrying or storing items.b. A handbag; a purse.c. A piece of hand luggage, such as a suitcase or satchel.d. An organic sac or pouch, such as the udder of a cow.
- An object that resembles a pouch.
- Nautical The sagging or bulging part of a sail.
- The amount that a bag can hold.
- An amount of game taken or legally permitted to be taken.
- Baseball A base.
- Slang An area of interest or skill: Cooking is not my bag.
- Slang A woman considered ugly or unkempt.
- To put into or as if into a bag.
- To cause to bulge like a pouch.
- To capture or kill as game: bagged six grouse.
- Informal To gain possession of; capture.
- Slang a. To fail to attend purposely; skip: bagged classes for the day and went to the beach.b. To stop doing or considering; abandon: bagged the idea and started from scratch.
- To pack items in a bag.
- To hang loosely.
- To swell out; bulge.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English bagge
Origin: , from Old Norse baggi
.Related Forms:
- bagˈful noun
- bagˈger noun
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