bag
verb
- catch
- to gain something and/or place in a location (bag)
- discard or abandon
noun
- simple tool in the form of a non-rigid container
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /bæɡ/ / /baɡ/ / /baːɡ/
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Old Norse baggibor.? Old French baguebor.? Middle English bagge English bag Inherited 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- An ugly woman.
- The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
“The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.”
- First, second, or third base.
“He headed back to the bag.”
- A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
- 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}.”
- A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
“the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents”
- A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
“Meronym: teats”
“Her bag is coming in nicely now.”
- A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
- 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.”
- The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
- A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
- 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 […]”
- A large number or amount.
- 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.”
- A fellow gay man.
- A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
- The scrotum.
- £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”
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree Old Norse baggibor.? Old French baguebor.? Middle English bagge English bag Inherited 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.
- To put into a bag.
- 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.”
- To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
“the two opposition groups have bagged almost 300 of the 500 seats contested in the election.”
- To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
“"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."”
- To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
“When we hit the club to go and hell-raise / Probably end up baggin' the cocktail waitress”
- To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
“Free bro, free bro, we got bagged for a M”
- To furnish or load with a bag.
“a bee bagged with his honeyed venom”
- To furnish or load with a bag.
- To furnish or load with a bag.
“The patient was bagged for a urine analysis and stat electrolytes were drawn.”
- 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.”
- To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
“His trousers bag at the knees.”
“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?”
- To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
- To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
“VVell, Venus ſhortly bagged, and ere long vvas Cupid bread, […]”
- 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.”
- To laugh uncontrollably.
- To criticise sarcastically.