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Bag

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A container of flexible material, such as paper, plastic, or leather, that is used for carrying or storing items.

n. A handbag; a purse.

n. A piece of hand luggage, such as a suitcase or satchel.

n. An organic sac or pouch, such as the udder of a cow.

n. An object that resembles a pouch.

n. Nautical The sagging or bulging part of a sail.

n. The amount that a bag can hold.

n. An amount of game taken or legally permitted to be taken.

n. Baseball A base.

n. Slang An area of interest or skill: Cooking is not my bag.

n. Slang A woman considered ugly or unkempt.

v. To put into or as if into a bag.

v. To cause to bulge like a pouch.

v. To capture or kill as game: bagged six grouse.

v. Informal To gain possession of; capture.

v. Slang To fail to attend purposely; skip: bagged classes for the day and went to the beach.

v. Slang To stop doing or considering; abandon: bagged the idea and started from scratch.

verb-intransitive. To pack items in a bag.

verb-intransitive. To hang loosely.

verb-intransitive. To swell out; bulge.

idiom. bag and baggage With all one's belongings.

idiom. bag and baggage To a complete degree; entirely.

idiom. bag it Slang To cease discussion of an issue: Finally in disgust I told my debating opponent to bag it.

idiom. bag it Slang To bring along one's lunch, as in a paper bag: I don't like cafeteria food, so I always bag it.

idiom. in the bag Assured of a successful outcome; virtually accomplished or won.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.

n. A handbag

n. A suitcase.

n. A schoolbag, especially a backpack.

n. One’s preference.

n. An ugly woman.

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

n. First, second, or third base.

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

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

v. To put into a bag.

v. To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.

v. To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.

v. this sense?) (slang, African American Vernacular) To be caught by the police.

v. To bring a woman one met on the street with one.

v. To laugh uncontrollably.

v. To criticise sarcastically.

v. To provide artificial ventilation with a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.

v. To swell or hang down like a full bag.

v. To swell with arrogance.

v. To become pregnant.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A sack or pouch, used for holding anything.

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

n. A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.

n. The quantity of game bagged.

n. A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack.

v. To put into a bag.

v. To seize, capture, or entrap.

v. To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.

verb-intransitive. To swell or hang down like a full bag.

verb-intransitive. To swell with arrogance.

verb-intransitive. To become pregnant.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A small sack; a portable receptacle or repository of leather, cloth, paper, or other flexible material, capable of being closed at the mouth; a wallet; a pouch: as, a flour-bag; a carpet-bag or traveling-bag; a mail-bag. Specifically

n. A purse or money-bag.

n. A small silken pouch in which the back hair of the wig was curled away.

n. What is contained in a bag; in hunting, the animals bagged or obtained in an expedition or a day's sport.

n. A sac or receptacle in animal bodies containing some fluid or other substance: as, the honey-bag of a bee.

n. An udder.

n. plural The stomach.

n. plural Trousers.

n. The middle part of a large haul-seine: the two parts on the sides are called wings.

n. A flue in a porcelain-oven which ascends on the inner side, and enters the oven high up, so as to heat the upper part.

n. A customary measure of capacity, generally from 2 to 4 bushels.

n. In coalmining, a quantity of fire-damp suddenly given off from the coal; also, the cavity from which the gas is emitted: formerly used to include cavities containing a large amount of water.

n. To dismiss one from one's service.

n. To cheat.

To swell or bulge.

To hang loosely like a bag.

To grow big with child.

To put into a bag: as, to bag hops.

To distend like a bag; swell.

To secure as game; shoot, entrap, or otherwise lay hold of: as, to bag thirty brace of grouse.

To make off with; steal.

To cut with a reaping-hook or scythe: used especially of cutting pease.

n. In base-ball, a base-bag.

n. A swelling on a boiler-plate.

n. In leather manufacturing, fullness in the middle of a skin, which prevents it from lying out flat and smooth. It is more marked in large skins.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge

n. a flexible container with a single opening

v. put into a bag

v. hang loosely, like an empty bag

n. an activity that you like or at which you are superior

n. a place that the runner must touch before scoring

n. a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)

n. an ugly or ill-tempered woman

v. capture or kill, as in hunting

v. take unlawfully

n. the quantity that a bag will hold

n. a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes

n. the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person)

n. mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)

Word Usage

"Is taking a showy suit of clothes out of bag and admiring them and is about to put them on when he hears some one coming and hurriedly puts them back into the bag_."

Verb Form

bagged bagging bags

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

swag flag sag droop activity disagreeable woman unpleasant woman capture catch steal

Cross Reference

sac politzer bag bag of bones to give one the bag bag and spoon barnes's bag give one the bag to hold to bag a brace to bring to bag bag of foulness

Variant

bagging bagged

Hyponym

bindle

Form

bagged bagging baek

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

sack pouchy pocket belly bulge swell poke tote

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Ag Bragg ag bagge brag dag drag fag flag gag

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Same Context

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