bag
bag definition
bag (bag)
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.
- ☆
Etymology: < baggage, sense
Slang an unattractive woman - Baseball a base
Etymology: ME bagge < ON baggi
transitive verb bagged, bagging bag′·ging
- 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
bag Idioms
bag and baggage
Informal- with all one's possessions
- completely; entirely
be left holding the bag
Informal to be left to suffer the bad consequences or the blame
in the bag
- ☆ Slang having its success assured; certain
- ☆ Slang drunk; intoxicated
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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