Definition of "bag"

A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.  examples

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.  examples

(colloquial) One's preference.  quotations  examples

(derogatory) An ugly woman.  examples

(baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.  examples

(baseball) First, second, or third base.  examples

(preceded by the) A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.  examples

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

A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.  examples

(now historical) A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.  quotations

The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.  examples

(UK) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.  examples

(chiefly in the plural) A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.  quotations  examples

(informal) A large number or amount.  examples

(slang)

1. (countable, uncountable) In certain phrases: money.  quotations  examples

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   • 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.

     2014 August 28, Sam Wilhoit, quoting OJ da Juiceman, “The Life and Times of OJ da Juiceman”, in VICE‎, archived from the original on 2023-09-22

   • A bag refers to money. So to get a bag or even secure a bag means that you are acquiring money.]

     , McLean, V.A.: Gannett, archived from the original on 2023-05-16

   • Secure the bag, secure the bagGrab the stash and hit the trap

     2019 April 4, “Secure The Bag”, Skripteh (lyrics)‎, 1:33

2. (US, gay slang, derogatory) A fellow gay man.

3. A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.  examples

4. (vulgar) The scrotum.  examples

5. (Cockney rhyming slang) £1000, a grand.  quotations

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   • Coulda got a bag last yearBut now I get a bag for a verse

     2017 May 2, Figure Flows (lyrics and music), “Money Right”, in Big Figures ft. Purple, from 1:18

   • My hoodie cost a bag three, my runners cost a bag two

     2023 June 18, “100mph Freestyle x3”, Clavish (lyrics)‎, 1:30

(transitive) To put into a bag.  examples

(transitive) To take with oneself, to assume into one's score

1. (informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.  quotations  examples

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   • He was a fine specimen, very large and with a beautiful coat, and I wish I had had the luck to bag him.

     1909, John Claude White, Sikhim and Bhutan, page 55

   • "As a matter of fact my thoughts were flashing between Ronda and that man-eating tiger I'm going to bag tomorrow."

     1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XIV, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 147

2. To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.  quotations  examples

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   • the two opposition groups have bagged almost 300 of the 500 seats contested in the election.

     2023 May 14, Tan Tam Mei, “Thai election: Early results show opposition parties in the lead”, in The Straits Times‎

3. (slang) To steal.  quotations

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   • "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."

     1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

4. (slang, African-American Vernacular) To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.  quotations

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   • When we hit the club to go and hell-raise / Probably end up baggin' the cocktail waitress

     2020, “Those Kinda Nights”, in Music to Be Murdered By, performed by Eminem ft. Ed Sheeran

5. (slang) To arrest.  quotations

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   • Free bro, free bro, we got bagged for a M

     2021 January 29, JS x Jtrapz (lyrics and music), “Straight On Smoke”, 0:54–0:56

(transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.  quotations

1. (transitive, medicine) To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.  examples

2. (transitive, medicine) To fit with a bag to collect urine.  quotations  examples

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   • The patient was bagged for a urine analysis and stat electrolytes were drawn.

     1985, Sol S. Zimmerman, Joan Holter Gildea, Critical Care Pediatrics, page 205

To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag

1. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.

2. To hang like an empty bag.  quotations  examples

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   • [...] he was dressed in a badly fitting white drill suit, with trousers bagging concertina-like over clumsy black boots.

     1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 3”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers

   • 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?

     2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 11, in Small Island‎, London: Review, page 125

3. (nautical, intransitive) To drop away from the correct course.  examples

4. (obsolete, intransitive) To become pregnant.  quotations

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   • Venus shortly bagged, and ere long was Cupid bread

     1586, William Warner, “The Sixth Booke. Chapter XXX.”, in Albions England. A Continued Historie of the Same Kingdome, from the Originals of the First Inhabitants thereof: , published 1602, page 148

To forget, ignore, or get rid of.  quotations  examples

(slang, African American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.

(Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.