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bag definition

bag (bag)

noun

  1. a nonrigid container made of fabric, paper, leather, etc., with an opening at the top that can be closed; sack or pouch
  2. a piece of hand luggage; suitcase
  3. a woman's handbag or purse
    1. a container for game
    2. the amount of game caught or killed
  4. a bagful
  5. anything shaped like a bag
  6. any thing or part shaped or bulging like a bag bags under the eyes, bags at trouser knees
  7. an udder or similar pouchlike membrane or sac
  8. Brit., Informal trousers
  9. Slang one's special sphere of interest, milieu, talent, obsession, etc.
  10. Etymology: < baggage, sense

    Slang an unattractive woman
  11. Baseball a base

Etymology: ME bagge < ON baggi

transitive verb bagged, bagging bag′·ging

  1. to make bulge
  2. to enclose within a bag
  3. to seize; capture
  4. to kill in or as in hunting
  5. Slang to obtain or collect
  6. Slang to quit, forgo, or give up on I bagged retail for a sales job
    also in the phrase bag it!

intransitive verb

  1. to swell like a full bag
  2. to hang loosely
bag Idioms

bag and baggage

Informal
  1. with all one's possessions
  2. completely; entirely

be left holding the bag

Informal to be left to suffer the bad consequences or the blame

in the bag

  1. Slang having its success assured; certain
  2. Slang drunk; intoxicated

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