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bag (bag)

noun

  1. a nonrigid container made of fabric, paper, leather, etc., with an opening at the top that can be closed; sack or pouch
  2. a piece of hand luggage; suitcase
  3. a woman's handbag or purse
    1. a container for game
    2. the amount of game caught or killed
  5. a bagful
  6. anything shaped like a bag
  7. any thing or part shaped or bulging like a bag bags under the eyes, bags at trouser knees
  8. an udder or similar pouchlike membrane or sac
  9. Brit., Informal trousers
  10. ☆ Slang one's special sphere of interest, milieu, talent, obsession, etc.
  11. ☆

    Etymology: < baggage, sense

    Slang an unattractive woman
  12. Baseball a base

Etymology: ME bagge < ON baggi

transitive verb bagged, bagging bag′·ging

  1. to make bulge
  2. to enclose within a bag
  3. to seize; capture
  4. to kill in or as in hunting
  5. Slang to obtain or collect
  6. Slang to quit, forgo, or give up on I bagged retail for a sales job
    also in the phrase bag it!

intransitive verb

  1. to swell like a full bag
  2. to hang loosely
bag Idioms

bag and baggage

Informal
  1. with all one's possessions
  2. completely; entirely

be left holding the bag

Informal to be left to suffer the bad consequences or the blame

in the bag

  1. ☆ Slang having its success assured; certain
  2. ☆ Slang drunk; intoxicated

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bag Synonyms

bag

n.

  1. A container

    purse, sack, pouch, pocket, grip, handbag, shopping bag, tote bag, tote, ditty bag, kit bag, knapsack, haversack, rucksack, backpack, fanny pack, carpetbag, kit, satchel, saddlebag, gunny sack, grain sack, woolsack, sac, saccule, suitcase, briefcase, attaché case, sacculus (Latin), bursa, poche, pochette (both French), duffel bag, garment bag, mailbag, diplomatic pouch, pack, container, feedbag, quiver, portmanteau, packet, pocketbook, Gladstone, holster, vanity bag, valise, sabretache, case, wallet, reticule, poke*, holdall*, carryall*, bindle*, tuckerbag*; see also purse.

  2. *A specialty

    preference, (favorite) activity, one's thing*; see specialty 1.

in the bag*

assured, sure, definite, clinched; see certain 3.

left holding the bag*

deceived, tricked, deserted, left to face the consequences; see abandoned 1, deserted 1.


bag

v.

trap, seize, get; see catch 1.


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bag Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • sleep: The resident slept in a sleeping bag on a metal frame bunk bed.

Adjective modifier

  • plastic: We return the plastic bags to the grocery store for them to recycle.

Modifies a noun

  • liner: A pack between 40 and 50 liters is probably most suitable to carry some clothing, washing kit and sleeping bag liner.

Noun used with modifier

  • sleeping: Consider bringing sleeping bags, or at least sheet sleeping bags.

Preposition: of

  • crisp: So we settled for bags of crisps for lunch as well as more pints of Harvey's Sussex Best Bitter.
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bag quotes

He that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

-Bible (Old Testament)

He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men who say yes, lie; and all men who say no,öwhy, theyare in the happy condition of judicious, unencumbered travellers in Europe; they crossthe frontiers into Eternity with nothing but a carpet bag.

-Melville, Herman

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

-Ruskin,John

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