Etimology
From Middle English bagge, from Old Norse baggi (“bag, pack, satchel, bundle”) (whence also Old French bague (“bundle, package, sack”)); related to Old Norse bǫggr (“harm, shame; load, burden”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰak- (compare Welsh baich (“load, bundle”), Ancient Greek βάσταγμα (bástagma, “load”)).
noun
bag (plural bags)
A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, briefcases, handbags, backpacks, etc.
(colloquial) One's preference.
(derogatory) An ugly woman.
(baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
(baseball) First, second, or third base.
(preceded by the) A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
(mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
(now historical) A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
(UK) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
(chiefly in the plural) A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
(informal) A large number or amount.
(slang)
Examples
Synonyms: poke, sack, tote
Hyponyms: sack, pouch, tote, bindle, purse, backpack
Synonyms: cup of tea, thing; see also Thesaurus:predilection
Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music.
And from then on, his bag was silence. Silence and killing.
Synonyms: dog, hag
The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.
He headed back to the bag.
Synonym: multiset
A bag of three apples could be represented symbolically as {a,a,a}. Or, letting 'r' denote 'red apple' and 'g' denote 'green apple', then a bag of three red apples and two green apples could be denoted as {r,r,r,g,g}.
the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents
the bag of a cow
[H]e had once lost his bag, and a considerable quantity of hair, which had been cut off by some rascal in his passage through Ludgate, during the lord mayor's procession.
He had on a suit of Manchester velvet, Lined with white satten, a Bag, lace Ruffles, and a very handsome sword which the King had given to him.
With gravel stuck to my cheek, I pulled myself back in the car, looked in the rearview mirror, and saw, looking back at me, a young man with a pale face and a purple bag under each eye. I looked pitiful […]
Yass girl, go get that bag!!!
What about the time you got shot eight times and then played a show the same week? ¶ Oh yeah that was beautiful, I mean it was fucked up that I was shot, but as far as goin' to get that bag I'm always gonna go get that bag.
A bag refers to money. So to get a bag or even secure a bag means that you are acquiring money.]
Secure the bag, secure the bagGrab the stash and hit the trap
Coulda got a bag last yearBut now I get a bag for a verse
My hoodie cost a bag three, my runners cost a bag two
verb
bag (third-person singular simple present bags, present participle bagging, simple past and past participle bagged)
(transitive) To put into a bag.
(transitive) To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
(transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.
To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
To forget, ignore, or get rid of.
(slang, African American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
(Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.
Examples
We bagged three deer yesterday.
He was a fine specimen, very large and with a beautiful coat, and I wish I had had the luck to bag him.
"As a matter of fact my thoughts were flashing between Ronda and that man-eating tiger I'm going to bag tomorrow."
the two opposition groups have bagged almost 300 of the 500 seats contested in the election.
"I am sure nobody would mind," said Susan. "It isn't as if we wanted to take them out of the house; we shan't take them even out of the wardrobe.""I never thought of that, Su," said Peter. "Of course, now you put it that way, I see. No one could say you had bagged a coat as long as you leave it in the wardrobe where you found it. And I suppose this whole country is in the wardrobe."
When we hit the club to go and hell-raise / Probably end up baggin' the cocktail waitress
Synonym: nick
Free bro, free bro, we got bagged for a M
a bee bagged with his honeyed venom
The patient was bagged for a urine analysis and stat electrolytes were drawn.
The skin bags from containing morbid matter.
The brisk wind bagged the sails.
And this uniform did not even fit me so well. But what is a little bagging on the waist and tightness under the arm when you are a gallant member of the British Royal Air Force?
His trousers bag at the knees.
VVell, Venus ſhortly bagged, and ere long vvas Cupid bread, […]
I may just bag that. I think poets have an obligation to boost the magazines they appear in.
Well, even if your VCR is still blinking “12:00," I hope you're smart enough to stay inside when it's that cold and just bag that workout.
I will just bag that. If not in the trade bill, that people believe should not interfere with the President's ability to negotiate a trade agreement, how would it be dealt with?
'Oh bag that,' said Nelson. 'Do the Edmund stuff — no, cut, we'll do it later, look, it's knocking midnight.'
“Or we can bag that part of it and just go straight inside,” Bolan suggested.
I'll get the sonofa—” “Listen, just bag that punchout shit for the moment. You've got a problem, and don't forget it.