bag

Plural: bags

Noun

• a flexible container with a single opening
  • "he stuffed his laundry into a large bag"
• the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person)
  • "his bag included two deer"
• a place that the runner must touch before scoring
  • "he scrambled to get back to the bag"
• a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)
  • "she reached into her bag and found a comb"
• the quantity that a bag will hold
  • "he ate a large bag of popcorn"
• a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes
  • "he carried his small bag onto the plane with him"
• an ugly or ill-tempered woman
  • "he was romancing the old bag for her money"
• mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)
• an activity that you like or at which you are superior
  • "his bag now is learning to play golf"
• 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.
• An ugly woman.
• The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
• First, second, or third base.
• 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 sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
• A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
• An udder, especially the pendulous one of a dairy cow.
• A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
• The human female breast.
• 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.
• A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
• A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
• A large number or amount.
• In certain phrases: money.
• A fellow gay man.
• A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
• The scrotum.
• £1000, a grand.

Verb

Verb Forms: bagged, bagging, bags

• To put something into a flexible container.
• capture or kill, as in hunting
  • "bag a few pheasants"
• hang loosely, like an empty bag
• bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
• take unlawfully
• put into a bag
  • "The supermarket clerk bagged the groceries"
• To put into a bag.
• To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
• To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
• To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
• To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
• To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
• To steal.
• To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
• To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.
• To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
• To arrest.
• To furnish or load with a bag.
• To furnish or load with a bag.
• To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
• To furnish or load with a bag.
• To fit with a bag to collect urine.
• To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
• To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.
• To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
• To hang like an empty bag.
• To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
• To drop away from the correct course.
• To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
• To become pregnant.
• To forget, ignore, or get rid of.
• To laugh uncontrollably.
• To criticise sarcastically.

Examples

• 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}.
• Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music.
• He headed back to the bag.
• He hoped to bag a triple-word score before the tiles ran out.
• Her bag is coming in nicely now.
• His trousers bag at the knees.
• the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents
• The brisk wind bagged the sails.
• The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.
• The skin bags from containing morbid matter.
• We bagged three deer yesterday.

Synonyms

bagful, base, bulge, cup of tea, dish, grip, handbag, old bag, pocket, pocketbook, purse, suitcase, traveling bag, travelling bag, udder, affinity, assets, babylons, badonkers, bag, balloons, bangers, baps, bazongas, bazookas, bazoombas, bazooms, bent, bewbs, booba, boobage, boobers, boobies, boobs, boosies, bosom, breast [⇒ thesaurus]s, breasticles, bristols, bubby, bubs, bust, calcium cannons, cans, cantaloupes, casabas, charlies, chebs, chest melons, chesticles, chichis, coconuts, cup of coffee, cup of joe, diddy, ding-dongs, dirty pillows, dog, double Ds, dugs, fancy, front bumpers, frontage, funbag, funbags, gazongas, girls, globes, grapefruits, hag, headlights, honkers, hooters, itty-bittys, jahoobies, jigglies, jubblies, jugs, knockers, lady lumps, liking, love pillows, mammaries, mammary glands, mammas, maracas, megaboobs, melons, milk jugs, milkbag, milkbags, milkers, mommy milkers, money makers, mountain [⇒ thesaurus]s, multiset, nick, norks, pair, paps, partiality, penchant, personality, poke, predilection, predisposition, preference, proclivity, propension, propensity, puppies, rack, sack, shine, sweater puppies, taste, tatas, teats, thing, threepenny bits, tiddies, tits, titters, titties, top bollocks, torpedos, tote, tracts of land, twin peaks, twins, udders, waps, yabos, zoomers

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