baggy

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of clothing, very loose-fitting, so as to hang away from the body.

   • The only way to safely avoid looking like a hipster, so far as I can tell, is to dress in oversize mesh jerseys bearing the logos of sports teams. Or to wear the blandest, baggiest, beige-est clothes possible, like a middle-aged tourist.
   • He’d made some of the company’s baggiest-ever pants in response, and even baggier ones were in the works.
2. 2

   Of or relating to a British music genre of the 1980s and 1990s, influenced by Madchester…

   Of or relating to a British music genre of the 1980s and 1990s, influenced by Madchester and psychedelia and associated with baggy clothing.

   • Pop historian Jon Savage listens to the best of the Stone Roses and their contemporaries – from Baby Ford to the Sabres of Paradise – and creates the perfect set of baggy playlists
3. 3

   Of writing, etc.

   Of writing, etc.: overwrought; flabby; having too much padding.

   • a baggy book
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   1. 4

      A member of the 1980/90s British music and fashion movement.

      • I said dad you're a shabby / You run around and groove like a baggy / You're only here just out of habit
   2. 5

      A small plastic bag, as for sandwiches.

   3. 6

      Such a bag filled with marijuana.

The neighborhood

• neighborbag