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bag

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What does bag mean?

noun

  1. A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
  2. 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.
  3. One's preference.
More meanings (34)

noun

  1. The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
  2. First, second, or third base.
  3. A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
  4. A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
  5. A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
  6. An udder, especially the pendulous one of a dairy cow.
  7. The human female breast.
  8. The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
  9. A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
  10. A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
  11. (informal) A large number or amount.
  12. (slang) In certain phrases: money.
  13. (slang) A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
  14. (slang) £1000, a grand.
  15. (derogatory) An ugly woman.
  16. (historical) A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
  17. (derogatory, slang) A fellow gay man.
  18. (slang, vulgar) The scrotum.

verb

  1. To put into a bag.
  2. (informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
  3. To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
  4. (slang) To steal.
  5. (slang) To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.
  6. (slang) To arrest.
  7. To furnish or load with a bag.
  8. To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
  9. To fit with a bag to collect urine.
  10. To hang like an empty bag.
  11. To drop away from the correct course.
  12. To forget, ignore, or get rid of.
  13. (slang) To laugh uncontrollably.
  14. (slang) To criticise sarcastically.
  15. (obsolete) To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.
  16. (obsolete) To become pregnant.
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I would crawl into this bag, and there sleep on the cold, damp, clay floor, with my head in and feet out.
Frederick DouglassNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American SlaveProject Gutenberg ebook #23
Never in all my life have I seen such wondrous swordsmanship and such uncanny agility as that ancient bag of bones displayed.
Edgar Rice BurroughsThe warlord of MarsProject Gutenberg ebook #68
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Sara opened the paper bag and took out one of the hot buns, which had already warmed her cold hands a little.
Frances Hodgson BurnettSara Crewe; Or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's Boarding SchoolProject Gutenberg ebook #137
I judged the fellows to be strolling conjurors, and the boy with the bag to be carrying the tools of their trade.
Wilkie CollinsThe MoonstoneProject Gutenberg ebook #155
Reaching the bottom, about five yards deep, he went on his knees and filled his bag with oysters picked up at random.
Jules VerneTwenty Thousand Leagues under the SeaProject Gutenberg ebook #164