bag

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used…

   A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.

2. 2

   A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or…

   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.

3. 3

   One's preference.

   • 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.
   • They knew it and sometimes used it as a way to get her to glox on, which was not her usual bag.
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   1. 4

      An ugly woman.

   2. 5

      The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.

      • The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.
   3. 6

      First, second, or third base.

      • He headed back to the bag.
   4. 7

      A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a…

      A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.

   5. 8

      A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be…

      A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.

      • 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}.
   6. 9

      A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.

      • the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents
   7. 10

      A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig

      A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.

      • [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.
   8. 11

      The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.

   9. 12

      A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.

   10. 13

       A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.

       • 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 […]
   11. 14

       A large number or amount.

   12. 15

       In certain phrases

       In certain phrases: money.

       • 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 bag Grab the stash and hit the trap
   13. 16

       A fellow gay man.

   14. 17

       A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.

   15. 18

       The scrotum.

   16. 19

       £1000, a grand.

       • Coulda got a bag last year But now I get a bag for a verse
       • My hoodie cost a bag three, my runners cost a bag two
   17. 20

       To put into a bag.

   18. 21

       To take with oneself, to assume into one's score

       • 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."
   19. 22

       To furnish or load with a bag.

       • a bee bagged with his honeyed venom
   20. 23

       To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag

       • The skin bags from containing morbid matter.
       • The brisk wind bagged the sails.
   21. 24

       To forget, ignore, or get rid of.

       • 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?
   22. 25

       To laugh uncontrollably.

   23. 26

       To criticise sarcastically.

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