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Definition of bag in English:

bag

nounPlural bags baɡbæɡ

  • 1A flexible container with an opening at the top, used for carrying things.

    he arrived at the children's ward carrying a bag full of toys for the young patients
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The women going about their shopping all carried baskets or shopping bags, not a plastic carrier in sight.
    • In his old school he had to carry his bag with him everywhere.
    • On her way to breakfast, she grabbed her gym bag.
    • You don't have to lug a bag of useful stuff around everywhere you go.
    • Eve smiled and sat down at the foot of the bed watching her daughter open the brown bag.
    • He was standing next to me with a bag at his feet and he kept dipping into this bag and fiddling about with something.
    • He quickly noticed the bags filled with orchids, which had been plucked from his park by the lanky guy now standing near a flatbed truck.
    • Pupils lined up outsides schools clutching brand new bags eager to return to class.
    • I ran to the truck and grabbed my bag.
    • I walk lazily to the kitchen and start emptying the bags.
    • What book should you throw into your beach bag?
    • People would come in and drop off bags of clothes by the carload, many of the items still with the tags on them.
    • He was carrying two bags containing a total of £40,000.
    • They turn up with bags full of beer.
    • All of the bags can be folded and stuffed inside the largest bag.
    • Together they carry their shopping bags to the wide, red front door and slip inside their house without exchanging a word, or even a glance.
    • A neighbour said he had reported one of the detained men after seeing him carrying a bag containing letters.
    • Re-using bags over and over certainly makes better economic and environmental sense than just dumping them after one use.
    • I was carrying a shopping bag from a high street clothes shop.
    • The only reason I was complaining was because my bag was so heavy.
    Synonyms
    receptacle, container
    shopping bag, string bag, sack
    British carrier bag, carrier
    Scottish poke
    North American dated keister
    1. 1.1 The amount contained in a bag.
      a bag of sugar
      Example sentencesExamples
      • His winces and stammers come from the one bag of acting tricks, marked ‘flopsweat.’
      • She brings it to a tall table, where Rachel's cousin Luis sits stone-faced with a bag of microwaved popcorn.
      • Unstacking some containers in the corner, she pulled out a bag of rice.
      • By the TV, a full bag of recyclables had fallen over, spilling its contents onto the otherwise clean floor.
      • The routes are remote and just arduous enough to appreciate the stops when Pedro the muleteer will pull down a freezer bag of home-made lemonade and a bottle of fino.
      • Still, there was a large bag of unknown contents hoisted in by a footman.
      • In my day, we had to be content with a bag of Tayto Crisps and a bottle of Cidona…
      • Tina smiles at her stepson, Cary, who is eating an entire bag of Ruffles and a container of French onion dip.
      • The blonde was hovering over a bag of feed and a green five gallon bucket.
      • The armed robbers, one of them wearing a balaclava, demanded the publican hand over a large bag of cash as he was about to step into his silver Mercedes.
      • The two fled, leaving the bag of cash and a sawn-off shotgun.
      • He said one method used to gauge a child's awareness of drug abuse is to ask them to draw the contents of ‘a bag of drugs’ found in the street.
      • Visitors to the show will receive a lace bag of wedding favours, five sugared almonds which traditionally convey blessing, with a Bible text inside.
      • There were 3 possible destinations: over her trainers, into her popcorn container or into my bag of chocolate brazils.
      • I get there and I buy a bag of chips and a pop with the little amount of money that I have left.
      • I am readmitted to the hospital and intravenously plugged into a bag of Dilaudid - hospital heroin.
      • But he was never very good at putting things back together so that one of his friends bet another a bag of sweets that Stephen would never amount to anything.
      • They just wanted me to donate, monthly, the equivalent amount to half a bag of tea-bags.
      • And then Santa arrived with his bag of Christmas gifts for everyone, courtesy of the Abbeyleix Goose Club draw.
      • Weighing just 1lb 14 oz, Caitlan is lighter than a bag of sugar, but she has shown a will to live that far outweighs her size.
    2. 1.2 A woman's handbag.
      a velvet evening bag
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Rummaging in her evening bag, she withdrew a crumpled pack of cigarettes and a wilted book of matches.
      • Mrs Danswan, of Croft Road, Old Town, specialises in making elegant evening bags.
      • Let me just get my speech out of my evening bag and say thank you to everyone who has stopped by over the past year.
      • She tells him that it is in her evening bag, which was thrown into the bushes.
      • They're accosted by Joan Rivers who demands to know which designer made their gown, their jewels, their evening bag.
      • You know, I've never counted, but I might have a hundred and fifty bags / handbags in my wardrobe.
      • You can have your own photograph of your dog printed onto a handbag, so your bag, like your dog, will be truly one of a kind.
      • Richard was identified by a woman as the black who snatched her bag late one evening.
      • Usually they are made at the handbag factory from the same materials the bags are made from.
      • Designer Kate Spade has achieved handbag hegemony and her boxy yet fresh bags swing from the shoulder of every New Yorker worth her manicure.
      • She found it in her bag that evening, and had slipped it into her pocket.
      • Like any well-organized woman, Kim has her purses divided into day bags and evening bags.
      • Kirby pulled a pen and correction fluid from her handbag before storing the bag at the back of the room on a peg.
      • But it's not only the contents of a woman's handbag which tells us about her - the actual bag can speak volumes too.
      • In her new spring collection, which ranged from large tote bags to delicately embroidered evening bags, there was something for every occasion.
      • The clips are being brought in to stop people having their bags or handbags snatched on a night out in Greenwich's bars and pubs.
      • Grabbing her evening bag, she slipped in her coat and left for the airport.
      • From tiny rucksacks through sequinned glamour bags to big mummy handbags, it's very rare to see a woman without one.
      • A woman sitting on a bench at Horseshoe Corner at 10.45 on Sunday evening had her bag snatched by a man who ran off towards the city centre.
      • Such women are likely to be in handbag heaven this spring, as bags are at the forefront of the craze for accessories.
      Synonyms
      handbag, shoulder bag, clutch bag, evening bag, pochette
      North American pocketbook, purse
      British informal bumbag
      North American informal fanny pack
      historical reticule, scrip
    3. 1.3 A piece of luggage.
      she began to unpack her bags
      Example sentencesExamples
      • By the time her husband returned home that Sunday evening, his bags were packed and set out in the living room, and a hotel reservation had been made for him.
      • The woman ushered Halle into the small 2-room apartment, and grabbed one of Halle's black luggage bags.
      • It didn't make me unpack my bags and cancel my flight, but it was quite an omen.
      • Steve put the suit back into a luggage bag, put the combination lock onto it, then put it back under his desk.
      • You can spend hundreds of pounds on luggage or bungee an overnight bag to the luggage rack.
      • How about buying a piece of luggage that consolidates your bags into a single carry-on that complies with all the rules and your needs?
      • Mr Manly said a forced door leading from the check-in area could have allowed someone to plant a bag with a Pan Am luggage label where bags were loaded on to planes.
      • I came to find Kwang-Su Oppa, and by chance I met him at the airport this afternoon when I was getting my bags from the luggage claim.
      • The bag was discovered among luggage from the commuter trains lost after the attacks.
      • The terminal was evacuated while a suspect bag at left luggage was investigated.
      • After she unpacked her bags and organized her belongings, Wendy decided to put her shower on hold and stroll around the ship.
      • I got changed and started re-packing my stuff from my bag into a suitcase.
      • She turned around, picked up her bag, the only piece of luggage she had.
      • I just entered with my luggage, just a bag and I was put in the last room.
      • He put his bag in a luggage rack and as more passengers got on the train he was pushed further away from it.
      • Early last season he was lifting a luggage bag from a hotel lift when he twinged something.
      • When I pull my luggage (a bag and a laptop) on to the taxi, the driver asked where I were going.
      • Checking into Hotel Residence ‘Le Rose’, his only luggage was a small bag.
      • Standing up quickly, Carrie went to her closet and took out her luggage bag.
      • I arrived home, my arms weighed down with bags, my luggage.
      Synonyms
      suitcase, case, valise, portmanteau, holdall, carryall, grip, overnight bag, overnighter, flight bag, travelling bag, Gladstone bag, carpet bag
      backpack, rucksack, knapsack, haversack, kitbag, duffel bag
      satchel
      (bags), luggage, baggage
      Australian/New Zealand informal port
    4. 1.4 The amount of game shot by a hunter.
      an estimated bag of 3,000 ducks
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It's fairly unlikely that the council will recommend further cuts in the scaup bag limit for the coming season.
      • The federal framework also modified the daily bag limit for the four-day season in the SWDA.
      • "Twenty pounds is not a bad bag," he said. "But I just didn't realize what it was going to take. I was in 51st place."
      • In all of the zones where the hunting of this species is authorized, the bag limit is one moose per two hunters per year.
      • The daily bag limit can include no more than 2 white-tipped (white-fronted doves).
      • Also, the agency is considering proposing an increase in the deer bag limit in those counties.
      • I love duck hunting but it's hard for me to get on the water at 5 in the morning and then have my hunt over in 10 minutes because I have taken my bag limit.
      • It was very vexatious; but still three lions were not a bad bag for one gun before dinner.
      • Looking at photos of other teal hunters' bags, most seem to hold a high percentage of adult male bluewings.
      • The bag limit had been a single whitefront for many years prior to that.
      • Not a great bag, but more than enough to win this tournament tonight.
      • I was pleased with 24-7 because that’s not a bad bag.
      • A zero bag limit will now apply to wobbegong sharks.
      • An illusion of an inner street, not a bad bag for the courtyard hunter.
      • The bag limit for unlisted native fish, which previously had no limit, will now be set at 10.
    5. 1.5bags Loose folds of skin under a person's eyes.
      there were dark bags under her eyes
      Example sentencesExamples
      • His hair was starting to gray around the edges, and his eyes were sunken, hidden away behind bags and wrinkles that were now forming.
      • When the blood circulation is slowed, some blood will collect around the eye which leads to dark circles, eye bags and wrinkles.
      • The product was reformulated, and we don't know if today's Preparation H would be at all helpful against wrinkles or bags.
      • Or use Photoshop to take out the wrinkles and bags under your eyes.
      • His face was wrinkled, large black bags under his eyes.
      • A similar incision is made along the lower lash line to remove undereye bags and skin.
      • Before she came on this trip she would have seen a stick-thin girl, with ratty blonde hair, blotchy skin and bags under her eyes.
      • I ignored the bags under my eyes and the weight I was losing.
      • His face was wrinkled, and the bags under his eyes did not help to make him look any younger.
      • He looked tired and worn out, with pale skin and purple bags under his eyes.
      • I was absolutely shattered, wearing a Burberry cagoule and a pair of sunglasses to hide the bags under my eyes.
      • Sloppy jeans, baggy top, red and sore nose, black bags under my eyes and scabby skin all courtesy of the cold virus.
      • She highlights slightly pimply skin, bags under eyes and flesh taut with baby fat.
      • My eyes looked bloodshot, there were dark, heavy bags under them, and my naturally sun-kissed skin looked incredibly pale.
      • She was aware of her pasty skin, of the bags under her eyes, and of the drawn look on her face without his comments.
      • This is the magic potion/formula that will make everything all right/my skin smoother/my bags less defined.
      • I can only remember a glimpse of him: dark bags under his eyes, loose pant and bluish shirt.
      • Mercia was watching her parent's faces; sallow skin, dark bags under their lifeless eyes.
      • A face has no character unless it moves, and the fleeting emotions animate the ingrained ones, the battle-damage - lines, bags, wrinkles.
      • But let's not forget that for all those wrinkles and those bags under her eyes, Maine Road is still a fabulous stadium.
    6. 1.6bagsBritish dated Loose-fitting trousers.
      a pair of flannel bags
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I wear a pair of bags, a dirty sweater, and go without hat or shoes and stockings.
      • Don't you lose any time about your absolutions, - washing, you know; but just jump into a pair of bags and Wellingtons; clap a top-coat on you, and button it up to the chin, and there you are, ready dressed in the twinkling of a bed-post.
    7. 1.7bags ofBritish informal Plenty of.
      I had bags of energy
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Jeremy Noseda's colt has bags of speed and scope and will not be easily denied.
      • There are still bags of sunshine every day and if you can get out of the wind there's some real power in it.
      • A talented young outfit who boast bags of ability and an enthusiasm to match.
      • Use a good, cheap cut like shoulder which becomes really tender the longer it cooks and has bags of flavour.
      • At their best, Chilean wines are unctuously juicy and intense, with bags of exotic ripe fruit.
      • I imagined that at the end I'd have bags of information, anecdotes and observations.
      • Rossendale came up against a team not only top of the league but also a side playing with bags of confidence.
      • This is a delicious game bird, with bags of flavour and little or no fat.
      • There is bags of power from way down the rev range and loads of poke in the middle where it is needed for safe overtaking.
      • The world is a pretty place, you have bags of energy, and you even look forward to a train ride in to work.
      • We have bags of potential but I am sick of that word, we need to start winning.
      • Venus in Pisces is a further sign she has bags of acting and musical talent.
      • Perhaps someone who has just retired and has bags of energy could come on board.
      • When I was 21, it was easier to put up with things when you thought you had bags of time to get where you wanted to be.
      • Only a single score down and bags of attrition time still left to play.
      • They had a decent first half and a very good second half while Hearts, despite bags of effort, had an off day.
      • He showed again he is comfortable on the ball, has bags of skill and when he tackles you, you stay tackled.
      • On the nose there are bags of ripe yeast underlined by musty hayshed flavours.
      • A clever premise, lots of clever ideas interwoven into the plot and just bags and bags of fun.
      • He had looks, he had charm, he had talent, and he had bags of money, of course.

  • 2informal A woman, especially an older one, perceived as unpleasant or unattractive.

    an interfering old bag
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But I sure can dream about seeing a bullet lodged it that old bag's skull.
    • Once I heard little more than static coming from my earpiece, I decided to humor the old bag.
    • The old bag that gets terribly angry if neighbours leave their junkmail sitting on and around the letterboxes?
    • On the news this morning, the old bag was saying that the visitor figures for the fountain had far exceeded their predictions.
    • Once they had lost the old bag, the six calmly went down the stairs.
    • I guess I was taking too long, because the old bag came right into the room!
    • I started with a right hook, and before I knew it I was nearly punching the stuffing out of that old bag.
    • It is a devastating piece, one that rises to violence, and yet director Marcus Romer rightly judges that Mag should not be a one-note, sour old bag.
    • Old bag, he thought to himself as he walked into the indicated room and settled into a chair.
    • Doubtless your sisters-in-law will think you a patronising, self-righteous old bag, but you can't have it all ways.
    • What probably really happened is that the old bag didn't want any dark skin hands near her purist Jewish skin and she was left their to fend for herself.
    • I would probably refuse to go out with the man simply because of the snoopy old bag.
    • He loathed the old bag more than Liz ever did, despite sharing the same political views.
    • I thought my words were going to change the world but that's all gone now and I'm just a jaded old bag.
    • How many times is the old bag going to play Lara Croft?
    • My good lady offered it to some old bag for £3 and she toddled off shaking her head.
    • It was the most boring two hours I'd ever spent in a theater, nothing but these wrinkled old bags in Indian hats hugging each other and crying.
    • Tommie had to contain his laughter at how angry the old bag was getting.
    • Perhaps it makes me seem like an old bag, but it does feel intimidating to face a gang of people, of whatever age, with intimidating body language.
    • You are sounding like that old bag that's in charge of making sure I am somewhat of a lady.

  • 3one's baginformal One's particular interest or taste.

    ask the manager about mild curries, if that's your bag
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But keeping an office running smoothly is not her bag.
    • And Jay needs to just stop watching them if it's not his bag.
    • Not that there's anything wrong with that - but not my bag.
    • It’s a bit on the simpering side and just was not my bag, but it sure was quick to read.
    • She managed to take a sip and while declaring the soup "probably delicious" she admits it is still not her bag.
    • I tried a course in b/w photography, but realised it was not my bag either.
    • We could bang on about adding value, or whatever marketing thing is a hot topic at the moment, but that's not our bag.
    • The resort lifestyle is most certainly not our bag.
    • Ostensibly, a Chinwag meeting about PR Online is simply not my bag, but an interface appears to be forming (think Star Trek) between PR and Blogging.
    • But it didn't take Scully long to figure out that coaching football was not his bag.
    • Cheap and cheerful is certainly not our bag at all.
    • In other words, she didn't catch the acting bug until after realizing the nine to five work-a-day world was not her bag.
    • Tried out the Super Ego, and I don't know how else to say this, but it's just not my bag.
    • Song and dance were not her bag, but she was great and deserved a highest award for the accomplishment in this movie.
    • Farstar International is probably one of the best examples of bad Web design ever, but obviously that's not the guy's bag.
    Synonyms
    hobby, pastime, leisure activity, leisure pursuit, recreation, entertainment, diversion, amusement, relaxation

  • 4Baseball
    A base.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Orta was called safe on a grounder even though the throw beat him to the bag.
    • At a game last week, a hitter popped the ball up in foul territory, right by the first base bag.
    • He takes a few steps past the bag and the right fielder throws the ball to the shortstop at the bag.
    • Because of his proximity to the base, the first baseman will tag the bag first before throwing to second.
    • The moment Ugeto reached second base safely and left the bag, he was open game to be put out.

  • 5(in southern Africa) a unit of measurement, used especially of grain, equal to 70 kg (formerly 200 lb).

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The standard 50-kg bag of fertilizer costs US$20 or more.
    • A bag (50-kg) of maize now sells for E 95 in the formal market however in the informal market the price ranges from E120-140 per bag.
verbbags, bagged, bagging baɡbæɡ
[with object]

  • 1Put (something) in a bag.

    customers bagged their own groceries
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It was generally bagged up with everything else and sent for land-fill.
    • Under protocols to protect against asbestos contamination, fire personnel and equipment had to be hosed down, while their kit was bagged up and sent for specialist cleaning.
    • The commercial side of shipping continues to be busy, with ships arriving from Latvia carrying bagged fertiliser.
    • The only things that go into my kitchen bin are the sometimes unavoidable plastic wrappings and, guess what, they don't have to be bagged up to throw out!
    • When they went to her wardrobes, her clothes were neatly bagged up with instructions of which charity they should go to.
    • At the last count, more than £920 had been banked and there was more than £100 in loose change waiting to be bagged up.
    • They were bagged up to be taken away by Trading Standards officers for investigation.
    • Leaves can be bagged up (it would help if the council supplied special bags for this) and collected later.
    • I remember going to my job afterwards bagging groceries and I wondered if the customers had any idea what I had been doing earlier.
    • Oh, and that digital frock of hers has been bagged up and sent to Oxfam.
    • During the spring, when the money ran out, Alma got a job at the local grocery store, bagging food for women who never even looked at her face.
    • When fruit or vegetables got a bit old, they would be bagged up ready to be passed on to customers.
    • Between them they had done the same with Carl's gear which had been bagged up in black plastic refuse sacks.
    • So, the computer's got to be moved onto a small coffee table temporarily, and my clothes are either bagged up or hung in various locations at random!
    • ‘We want to let people know that we do need help, whether it's in planning the event, bagging the straw nearer the day or the range of activities such as setting off the runners,’ she said.
    • These items were bagged, and carried by the plaintiff.
    • After that, they were bagged up for shipping and stored in the freezer until a truck came to get them.
    • You were bagging groceries, but I don't think that's your real job (you were dressed as if you were a manager or something.)
    • Estrada believes she lost her diamond ring while bagging sweets for a customer.
    • Sometimes, kids overlook grocery jobs for teens simply because they think the only job available is bagging groceries.

  • 2Succeed in killing or catching (an animal)

    Mike bagged nineteen cod
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Oooh, that's gotta hurt - you go hunting and the only member of the party who bags anything is your dog.
    • But on that one day, Graham bagged something much more significant than a wolf or a quail…
    • It is our Ivory anniversary, so I'm off out to bag me an elephant.
    • She bagged a deer on her very first shoot, but found it more difficult when asked to go stalking alone.
    • It was not unusual for a hunter to bag up to 40 geese or widgeon with one shot with this method.
    • I was nervous, but rather chuffed to have bagged such a fine specimen.
    • Last year's statistics reveal that 1183 foreign hunters bagged over 8900 animals in the province at a cost of over R44,5 million.
    • The free event is open to hunters bagging white-tailed deer, mule deer, or antelope in Texas during the past year.
    • We also follow Roy, from Texas, as he goes on safari to bag himself a special animal for the show.
    • Other than dove hunters, nobody bagged much out of this session.
    • Kerry claims to have come-this-close to bagging a 16-point buck out on the cape.
    • Are fishing seasons and bag limits keeping marine fish stocks healthy?
    • The goal with professional hunter Gordon Duncan of Shangaan Hunters in Zimbabwe was to bag a Cape buffalo.
    • Wealthy Britons pay tens of thousands to bag a lion, elephant or polar bear in trophy hunts that recreate images of a bygone colonial era
    • Tom bagged a good sized deer and said how it would be a good idea for us to go back to his place for a meal.
    • Baiting with corn, he bagged half a dozen carp, with fish up to 7lb, for his 25 lb 12 oz.
    • Field lessons learned Dove hunting can be a casual event, and many birds are bagged by hunters walking in the open or standing near vehicles, giving no thought to hiding.
    • Fishing close to the margins with meat, Dallton was bagging the odd nice carp until the intervention of a beast of 15-10 catapulted him to the top of the prize list.
    Synonyms
    catch, capture, trap, snare, ensnare, land
    kill, shoot, pick off
    1. 2.1 Succeed in securing (something)
      we've bagged three awards for excellence
      get there early to bag a seat in the front row
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It can't be the true bliss of bagging a bargain on a wet weekday in early January can it?
      • Havildar Murugesan and Havildar Chinnusamy bagged the first and second places in the automatic gun shooting.
      • From RAMP shows and TV compering to bagging the best actress award in the small screen category for 2001, Jyothirmayee has come a long way.
      • Tiger Woods may win more tournaments and bag the most prize money.
      • Though the civic body invited short-term tenders for the work, the Land Army Corporation has bagged the contract, as its bid was the lowest, the sources said.
      • There was little to choose between the sides in the early stages of the second-half, but Humphreys bagged a snap drop-goal to edge the visitors back in front.
      • They were primarily studying the igneous rocks in the region but still managed to bag a few good fossils.
      • Westaro started the brighter with Selsby finding his shooting form early, bagging the opening basket followed by a three pointer.
      • He completed his impressive domestic set by bagging his first FA Cup goal for his current club Blackburn on January 31, 2000 at the ripe young age of 22 years and 103 days.
      • But, perhaps, when you're an older guy trying to bag the younger chick then that's what you need to do.
      • Last weekend, he collected another Scottish Cup with Celtic to add to the League title that they had already bagged a few weeks earlier.
      • In the South Lakeland District Council award section, Sedbergh bagged the towns and villages trophy while Rydal Mount, Rydal, took the tourism trophy.
      • Earlier with Trikaya Grey and Leo Burnett, Singh has already proved his talent by being a regular winner at the Abby awards, not to mention bagging the Golden Lion at Cannes.
      • Veteran artiste, Sheela, has bagged the special jury award for excellence in acting.
      • Nimbus, IMG, Rishi Narain Golf Associates and Tiger Sports Marketing evinced keen interest in bagging the right to stage the tour.
      • Any gentleman who would bag himself a Snake lady would be ill-advised to seem too available.
      • The 30-year-old beauty, whose character has an affair with a schoolboy in the hit popular series - admits she would be interested in bagging herself a toyboy like her racy character..
      • Samyuktha Varma bagged the best actress award for her role in another film exploring post-marital affairs, ‘Megha Malhar’.
      • Innocent and Gopika bagged the best character actor and actress awards for their roles in Vesham.
      • Two years ago, Ganjam bagged the runners-up award at the International Gold Virtuosi 2000.
      Synonyms
      get, secure, obtain, acquire
      reserve, commandeer, grab, appropriate, take
      win, achieve, attain
      informal get one's hands on, get one's mitts on, nab, pick up, land, net

  • 3no object (of clothes, especially trousers) form loose bulges due to wear.

    these trousers never bag at the knee
    Example sentencesExamples
    • My mom and dad came out dressed in their snow gear, and Raine stumbled out with her mess of cute, layered sweaters, snow boots with her pants bagging low.
    • To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth.
    • Instantly, he felt himself become smaller, his clothes bagging like a boy dressing up in his father's things.
    • Choosing the next size larger, the women will only experience sagging and bagging at the ankles after wearing them a short period of time.
    • He smiled innocently, pulling his shirt up and letting his checkered pants bag low under his hips.
    • I feel there is nothing wrong with bagging pants as long as your actual underwear and behind is not showing.
    • Her jeans, partially soaked from splashing onto the street, now seemed almost like they were made for her, because as she moved they moved too, not bagging at the knees.
    • The real results are the most promising: dropped two sizes, clothes bagging off, muscle definition and, best of all, people saying, “What are you doing?"
    • So what if my pants are bagging at the ankles and I have to keep pulling them up every 5 seconds.
    • He looked small and young with my clothes bagging off his thin frame, but his face had matured.
    • Premium prewashed cotton with a touch of Lycra elastane holds its shape without bagging at the knees.
    • Even he himself could not even begin to imagine, his gangly frame, messy unsettled jet black hair gleaming, his green eyes shining, his huge elephant skin like clothes bagging off of him.
    • The cloak he wore bagged over his body, making his frail stature appear sturdier.
    • If I am wearing pantyhose, I double check to ensure there is no laughable bagging at the ankles.
    • I'm tired of being the 5'7 115lb runt in a group of much larger kids, and i'm tired of clothes bagging off of my scrawny body.
    Synonyms
    sag, hang loosely, bulge, swell, balloon

  • 4North American informal Abandon or give up on.

    she ought to just bag this marriage and get on with her life
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Let's bag it before this gets ugly.
    • About twenty years ago, the Connection Machine was supposed to be the big new paradigm, but before long they bagged it.
    • Once you lift it and start driving with the larger tires you'll wish you bagged it and saved on gas.
    • We spent about an hour there, snapping Zoe action photos and playing, but it was a little too windy and nippy for us, so we bagged it and headed home.

  • 5Australian NZ informal Criticize.

    the fans should be backing him not bagging him
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They didn't spend the entire time bagging each other, and some of them actually addressed issues and pointed out policy.
    • He plays league footy, while you sit behind your computer, eating popcorn, bagging out more athletic people than yourself and playing world of warcraft all day.
    • The Poms don't need any help bagging themselves.
    • I thought the whole idea behind po-mo was so that everyone could do their own thing and not cop a bagging.
    • Melbourne people are fond of bagging big brash Sydney.
    • Sky and Boyd are at the makeshift coffee shop, and Sky is bagging him for pulling apart his hot dog, so he can just eat the frankfurter.
    • You and some of your correspondents are fond of colourfully bagging Andrew and that is your right.
    • They are not interested in watching a movie that has already been bagged by movie critics on radio stations and television.
    • The Government says many Senate committee reports have been set up with the specific purpose of "bagging the Government".
    • In January, there have been so many letters bagging the so-called ' bleeding hearts ' of this country, that I just had to have my say.
    • I would hope the member would support those programmes, rather than bagging them all the time.
    • So they sneak around, bagging the Greens behind their backs, and saying something quite different.
    • I don't appreciate the bagging of other's opinions for no apparent reason.
    • There's always people bagging teachers or lawyers or someone else.
    • McCaughey was a little in awe of Greenberg, and once at his New York apartment, he was appalled to hear an Australian artist showing off and bagging one icon after another in front of his host.
    • It's interesting to note that with one lone exception, the group hasn't had the expected posse of teenagers hurling abuse at us for bagging out this show.
    • Aussie fund managers will need a tough hide and nerves of steel to withstand the bagging they'll be copping from News organs if this one goes down.
    • Surely a politician can't go wrong bagging lawyers?
    • This won't be anything about attacking individuals or bagging out colleagues or attacking other people for having different views, it'll be about ideas.
    • He described him as the most honest person he has ever met, and that he has never once heard him bagging a player or a coach.
    Synonyms
    vilify, disparage, denigrate, defame, run down, impugn, revile, berate, belittle, abuse, insult, slight, attack, speak badly of, speak ill of, speak evil of, pour scorn on, criticize, censure, condemn, decry, denounce, pillory, lambaste

  • 6North American informal Fit (a patient) with an oxygen mask or other respiratory aid.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Bag him at a rate of 30. Check for breath sounds bilaterally.
    • We then bag her for a while more, and then wean her off oxygen.
    • In the ambulance, the EMTs took the decedent's vital signs, continued to bag him with high-flow oxygen, monitored his heart, and gave him CPR.
    • They also maintained airway management and continued to bag him.
    • Whether we tube him or not someone still has to bag him, and he seems to be doing fine with what we’re doing.

Phrases

  • bag and baggage

    • With all one's belongings.

      he threw her out bag and baggage
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The next move landed us only at Jammu without bag and baggage and reeling under the tremendous agony, desperation and exasperation, thinking what is in our fate.
      • Finally they packed up bag and baggage and moved to Coyote, some miles west along Coyote Creek.
      • She packs bag and baggage and leaves with a vague address for a relative in the big city (Delhi).
      • I happen to believe that she was right to refuse to compromise with Galtieri and to insist that the Argentinians had to leave the Falklands, bag and baggage.
      • Ms Hughes added: ‘After getting the council's letter last week I told them I had no choice but to move bag and baggage and that I was moving into private rented accommodation.’
      • Having no other alternative place to go to, they moved bag and baggage to the City Railway Station triggering off utter chaos and confusion there.
      • They could be moved bag and baggage to some isolated northern wilderness.
      • The offer of the Waco church was accepted and in 1896, students and faculty moved bag and baggage to Waco.
      • Nobody is packing up bag and baggage and leaving.
      • The Kollywood fraternity has packed bag and baggage for a hectic week abroad, doing what they do best - entertaining.
      • Town proprietor John Nininger ‘was sued for one of his debts $1200, and he ran off bag and baggage in a hurry leaving a number of unpaid debts behind him.’
      • In the end he went bag and baggage over to Lachmann's camp.
      • Before a year had passed the regiment was ordered to be re-established, and our household decamped with bag and baggage for Dublin.
      • The council estate consists of 10 single-story units where a number of families and elderly citizens moved in, bag and baggage, at the official opening of the estate on Monday, February 9.
      • The next day, I was singled out as an ‘S’ passenger at the airport; I presume the S stood for ‘suspect’, since I was searched head-to-toe, bag and baggage, almost misplacing my Christmas present.
      • I was on a three-week vacation and it turned me into shifting bag and baggage to India.
      • The town of Ellis moved bag and baggage to Tracy including moving two hotels.
      • At Wagah, every passenger has to once again disembark with bag and baggage for the Pakistani round of immigration checks.
      • They found it expedient, therefore, to fall back upon the old bag and baggage argument about the Ottoman Empire “being foreign to Western civilization.”
      • The man issued his proclamation declaring Chinatown to be a “nuisance,” and requiring its inhabitants to get out with their bag and baggage within thirty days.

  • a bag of bones

    • informal An emaciated person or animal.

      the pony is just a bag of bones
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A dog owner told a court how his pet was 'just a bag of bones' when he went to collect him from boarding kennels.
      • You got me specially tailored-made clothing, so I would not feel so depressed being just a bag of bones.
      • While confined to a wheelchair just a few months ago and "just a bag of bones," Adams has gained 25 lb.
      • It seems like too much energy for a bag of bones /And for the lucky souls /Waters wash away the cobwebs
      • Brooke said carrying the dog was "like carrying a bag of bones down the hill."
      • She was so pretty and he was just a bag of bones that forgot to stop walking about.
      • We've found animals wandering around the paddock, just a bag of bones, totally covered in scabs, hardly a hair on their body.
      • He's a bag of bones, he's not terribly pretty, and he was labeled "fractious" on his very first day at the pound.
      • It was just a bag of bones which could barely stand it was so weak.
      • I'm just a bag of bones, drifting like a large, hyper-evolved amoeba from stimulus to stimulus.
      • It's easy, almost convenient, to forget that my cadaver is a man, not just a bag of bones and skin and connective tissue glued together with embalming fluid.
      • Personally I don't find bodies that are a bag of bones attractive.
      • At least she's not a bag of bones and is cuter than Lohan, Barton, Bosworth, ect, ect.
      • The young cat is fatter the old cat is a bag of bones, but happy.
      • If it hadn't been for the campaign these 90 kilogram women would have been a bag of bones waiting to die.
      Synonyms
      nag, inferior horse, tired-out horse, worn-out horse, rosinante

  • a bag of tricks

    • informal A set of ingenious plans, techniques, or resources.

      documentary, magic realism, and surrealist techniques are all included in his bag of tricks
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The whole bag of tricks of the average business man, or even of the average professional man, is inordinately childish.
      • The Brothers Chaps brought their bag of tricks with them; they were sitting on stage behind their laptops, with the Homestar puppet by Matt's side.
      • This classic objective adds multipitch rock climbing and a thrilling 150-foot rappel to your bag of tricks.
      • By making it a ‘free for all’ society, there is no right or wrong, only an interpretation by unelected judges and lawyers with the biggest bags of tricks.
      • If you want to see the whole bag of tricks, consider the ultimate winter animal, the polar bear.
      • But slowly things became easier for him as he developed a whole bag of tricks at making his life easier.
      • My favorite is actually one that he wrote that I rarely pull out of the bag of tricks which is called ‘Easy to be Free.’
      • Poe may not have the capacity of Ernest, but he's crafty and I'm certain he brought his whole bag of tricks with him.
      • Oh yes, he was thinking, I have a bag of tricks right here.
      • She's got Kevin's sense of what's out there, however, and it's inevitable that she's going to outgrow Jerry's dime-store bag of tricks.
      • Realising that a win can only be achieved by taking the game to Brothers and applying the pressure relentlessly until they crack, Workers delved deep into their baseball bag of tricks.
      • Like others who have survived these battles, I eagerly await the arrival of MT 3.0 technology because it means I can integrate Typekey into my bag of tricks.
      • Everyone here is very professional, very focused and has many resources in their bag of tricks.
      • I've been firewooding for about ten fully educational years now, and today I learned a new one from firewood's bag of tricks that's going straight into my Firewood Tactics Analysis File.
      • But some Marines are now digging into their own bag of tricks, getting ready, making their own explosive charges.
      • However, he's also opened up a whole new bag of tricks for this latest adventure.
      • On the other hand, he's frustratingly comfortable recycling from his old kit bag of tricks.
      • It means that pretending is no longer in our bag of tricks.
      • And this their debut mini album - though a mixed bag of tricks - has enough melodic dexterity to cross over from hype to the actual hands of the commercial buying public.
      • The mind boggles at the richness of invention in these strips, the constant surprises Herriman proves himself capable of pulling from some unfathomable bag of tricks.

  • bags (or bags I)

    • informal A child's expression used to make a claim to something.

      bags I his jacket
      Example sentencesExamples
      • "Bags I the black ones!" yell the kids. "Naah, you ate all the black ones last time."
      • Nonsense, nonsense! Now we’ll play another game! Bags I the first move!
      • 'Let's play at Slaves and Emperors', one shrills, 'Bags I the Emperor!' 'No, you're Moriarty, And bags I Holmes!'
      • Sweeney used to say, in Ireland, 'Bags I that.'
      • Bags I the hot dogs (inside) rather than the bottle stall (outside).
      • Male patriotism also manifested in the fact that the boys were all for "bags I the side of the Hungarians", leaving the girls with the role of the Russians.
      • Bags I the dummy, Bags I the cot, Bags I the rubber duck the other baby's got.
      • Bags I the left side! Now then, Dreda, I choose you first. Hereward can take Rowena. Buck up! We have got to win this time.
      • Here we say, 'bags I' instead. As in: bags I the chainsaw, bags I the best seat in the house, bags I the biggest piece of cake, and bags I the last beer....doesn't mean you always get it, tho.
      • Yes, and hopefully they tear down that ridiculous park of his. Bags I the first go with the bulldozer!
      • Bags I the one with the maddest of the mad hair, and the most dreadful of the Granny-knitted jumpers...and the broadest West Country accent.
      • Nice to see you back again, Jan - bags I the teddy bear!!!
      • There are lots of houses for sale. I guess which one I’ll buy, bags I the one with the red roof.
      • "Bags I the buns, though," he added, by a happy afterthought, and snatching the bag, pressed it on Mabel.
      • Bags I the first response!

  • in the bag

    • 1informal (of something desirable) as good as secured.

      the election is in the bag
      Example sentencesExamples
      • That said, if Lance repeats yesterday's performance, he's got it in the bag.
      • But at Gladstone Primary, they're just as confident they've got the trophy in the bag.
      • With the election in the bag, he may then be forced to rethink the need for tax rises.
      • The League Cup is in the bag and the title was secured amid the most emotional of scenes last week at Parkhead that will live long in the memory of those who took part.
      • Johnson is also upset by the talk, mainly by Calzaghe's side, that the Tarver-Calzaghe match is already in the bag.
      • The fact that today's speech will focus on the need for unity suggests that the chancellor is not one of those who sees a third Labour victory as in the bag.
      • It's as though he just wishes it would go away until the next election is in the bag.
      • With several other clubs waiting in the wings, however, Rovers know there's still some way to go before a deal is formally in the bag.
      • However, it would be foolhardy to believe that a deal is in the bag.
      • That final looked in the bag for the visitors out the country but the home team staged a fantastic rally to bring the issue down to the wire.
      • The president, in other words, probably had the 2004 election in the bag all along.
      • Typical Wexford, we should have had it in the bag, but we let it slip.
      • China steps on to the pitch at the World Cup finals this year with one victory already in the bag.
      • Croydon Athletic must have thought the points were in the bag when they took the lead on eight minutes against lowly Horsham on Saturday.
      • The job was in the bag as far as Miles - egotistical Miles - was concerned.
      • Even thought I had the job in the bag, I've decided not to take it.
      • This is the arrogance of a government who thinks they've got the election in the bag.
      • This time, with their event in the bag, they can stand aloof.
      • With promotion in the bag and the Wilkinson Sword Trophy in the cabinet, Reid was still acclaiming a successful season.
      • He thought he had their political support and their votes, and therefore the election, in the bag.

    • 2informal Drunk.

      after a long night in the pubs, he was in the bag
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Since the Bruisers played first that day both of them were half in the bag on Bass Ale.
      • No, I think that when I’m that far in the bag some deeper, primeval urge takes over and I am compelled to do inappropriate things.
      • He's also a shy boy, and throughout most of the dinner, he was in the bag.
      • Most of the interviews were done with troops that were half in the bag.
      • I don't know if he was half in the bag the way a lot of the waiters seemed to be, or not.
      • Once he was in the bag, the King let it slip that some Norwegians might be headed our way trying to invade Scotland.
      • I can’t be the only one who blogs when she’s half in the bag, right?
      • Because turbulence when you're half in the bag is just as bad as turbulence when you're sober.
      • Already eight a.m. and she was in the bag.
      • The same student admitted Sweeney seemed a bit in the bag.
      • At this point Nick was too far in the bag to continue.
      • The story was that, after a long night in the pubs, he was in the bag.
      • For my delicate sensibilities, I'm halfway in the bag.
      • Mike was a soldier who was always more than half in the bag.
      • Cluff sounded half in the bag and really did not impress me at all with his monotone delivery.
      Synonyms
      intoxicated, inebriated, drunken, befuddled, incapable, tipsy, the worse for drink, under the influence, maudlin

Phrasal Verbs

  • bag on

    • Criticize.

      I don't know why everyone is bagging on Palmer
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He says I've been bagging on the Phillies too much.
      • We all love original horror films and a lot of us love to bag on studios and their horror remakes, gimmicks and 3D trickery.
      • For you losers that are bagging on her about this being her third marriage she was married the first time for 4 years, the second time for 16 years.
      • People like to bag on The Walking Dead because it concerns itself more with people arguing than people fighting zombies, but that's the whole point.
      • It's not my style to bag on people unless they do something egregiously wrong.
      • There are a lot of smug haters out there who bag on my choice of a name, but I don't care about what they think.
      • As much as we bag on our elected officials (and deservedly so) this is the kind of stuff that takes up a large portion of their day.
      • I always hate to bag on a movie but I have to admit that this one was a tough one to get through.
      • I don't know why people are still bagging on her.
      • There's no need to bag on someone for not agreeing with you.
      • Ah, everybody's bagging on Frankie.
      Synonyms
      find fault with, censure, denounce, condemn, arraign, attack, lambaste, pillory, disapprove of, carp at, cavil at, rail against, inveigh against, cast aspersions on, pour scorn on, disparage, denigrate, deprecate, malign, vilify, besmirch, run down, give a bad press to

Derivatives

  • bagful

    • nounPlural bagfuls ˈbaɡfʊl
    • Teenagers got together to pick up dozens of bagfuls of litter in Benfleet and Canvey as part of a community project.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • She goes home nearly every Saturday and comes back Monday mornings, carrying bagfuls of sweet bread, pickled meats and fresh fruit.
      • Yes, she's got a lot of attention from fans, and finds it difficult to reply to all the letters that pour in throughout the week… literally in bagfuls.
      • Indians have always harvested medals by the bagfuls, utilising the event as a testing ground to spot and groom talent.
      • He gave an exemplary performance yet again and had this been the Oscars he'd have walked away with bagfuls of awards and lucrative contracts.

  • bagger

    • nounˈbaɡəˈbæɡər
    • He was a coal bagger for the Co-op and only earned about £3. 15s.0d a week!
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The checker was a nice-looking young man who was talking to the bagger about his fantasies.
      • The employers - Vons and Pavillions, Ralphs and Albertsons - want to slash the health and retirement benefits of their cashiers, baggers, deli clerks and other employees.
      • Ufcw grocery-store workers in Southern California start out at the minimum wage of $6.75 an hour for beginning baggers.
      • The son of Irish immigrant parents, Naughton had worked in a weaving shed and as a coal bagger and driver for the Co-op before joining Mass Observation in 1938.
      • Most of those stars were waitresses and Safeway grocery baggers in a previous life anyway, so it's nice you celebrated their roots.
      • Part-time crew members, who work as baggers, cashiers, box boys and stock persons, can start at wages as low as $6.75 an hour with no experience, but generally earn from $7.50 to $15.85 an hour.
      • I took them back and the bagger realized he'd mixed my purchases in with the lady after me, who went home without her flour or her dishwashing liquid but with a dozen packets of honey-roasted turkey she may not have wanted.
      • I have had to take drastic actions by keeping the grocery cart between me and said person, frustrating the bagger at the end of the line for not having the ability to reach my cart.
      • As our food started piling up with no hint of a bagger, we began to wonder if we were supposed to do it ourselves.
      • She whipped a plastic bag from beneath the sink and started packing ornaments, briskly, like baggers at the Acme.
      • Even if the brains in Boise put in all the technology in the world, they'll need the support of Albertson's cashiers, stockers, baggers and managers - the people in stores to help customers every shopping day.
      • One person I worked with was a bagger at Genuardi's.
      • She barked at the cashier and barked at the bagger and barked the whole way out of the store.
      • With slim margins and highly perishable product, the baggers of baby lettuce hold onto their washing, spinning, and packaging trade secrets, knowing competitors are innovating as fast as they are themselves.
      • Finally, Josh, a 17-year-old grocery bagger at a health food store in downtown Santa Cruz expressed his frustration about the job market.
      • Many of them are baggers in grocery stores, greeters, doing janitorial work, volunteering in hospitals, delivering meals on wheels, etc.
      • Earlier in the week, 50,000 clerks and baggers who belong to seven UFCW locals voted by a 98 percent margin to reject the employers' concessions demands.
      • Ray was a bagger at a Taos supermarket before his mom told him about the Corps.
      • I stay busy with school and basketball, and I've got a part-time job - I'm a bagger at a family-owned grocery store in town.

Origin

Middle English: perhaps from Old Norse baggi.

  • The origin of bag is uncertain but it may come from an old Scandinavian word. Some phrases in English come from its use to mean a hunter's game bag, such as having something in the bag, ‘as good as secured’. Another sense, ‘a particular interest or distinctive style’, as in ‘Dance music isn't really my bag’, is probably jazz slang of the late 1950s. In the sense ‘an unattractive woman’, bag or old bag was originally American, and was first recorded in the 1890s.

Rhymes

blag, brag, Bragg, crag, dag, drag, flag, gag, hag, jag, lag, mag, nag, quag, rag, sag, scrag, slag, snag, sprag, stag, swag, tag, wag, zag fleabag, tea
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Definition of bag in US English:

bag

nounbæɡbaɡ

  • 1A container made of flexible material with an opening at the top, used for carrying things.

    brown paper bags
    a shopping bag
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He was carrying two bags containing a total of £40,000.
    • I ran to the truck and grabbed my bag.
    • I was carrying a shopping bag from a high street clothes shop.
    • A neighbour said he had reported one of the detained men after seeing him carrying a bag containing letters.
    • Pupils lined up outsides schools clutching brand new bags eager to return to class.
    • Together they carry their shopping bags to the wide, red front door and slip inside their house without exchanging a word, or even a glance.
    • You don't have to lug a bag of useful stuff around everywhere you go.
    • He was standing next to me with a bag at his feet and he kept dipping into this bag and fiddling about with something.
    • All of the bags can be folded and stuffed inside the largest bag.
    • Re-using bags over and over certainly makes better economic and environmental sense than just dumping them after one use.
    • They turn up with bags full of beer.
    • He quickly noticed the bags filled with orchids, which had been plucked from his park by the lanky guy now standing near a flatbed truck.
    • The only reason I was complaining was because my bag was so heavy.
    • On her way to breakfast, she grabbed her gym bag.
    • People would come in and drop off bags of clothes by the carload, many of the items still with the tags on them.
    • Eve smiled and sat down at the foot of the bed watching her daughter open the brown bag.
    • What book should you throw into your beach bag?
    • The women going about their shopping all carried baskets or shopping bags, not a plastic carrier in sight.
    • In his old school he had to carry his bag with him everywhere.
    • I walk lazily to the kitchen and start emptying the bags.
    Synonyms
    receptacle, container
    1. 1.1 An amount held by a bag.
      a bag of apples
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There were 3 possible destinations: over her trainers, into her popcorn container or into my bag of chocolate brazils.
      • By the TV, a full bag of recyclables had fallen over, spilling its contents onto the otherwise clean floor.
      • I am readmitted to the hospital and intravenously plugged into a bag of Dilaudid - hospital heroin.
      • The routes are remote and just arduous enough to appreciate the stops when Pedro the muleteer will pull down a freezer bag of home-made lemonade and a bottle of fino.
      • Still, there was a large bag of unknown contents hoisted in by a footman.
      • I get there and I buy a bag of chips and a pop with the little amount of money that I have left.
      • Weighing just 1lb 14 oz, Caitlan is lighter than a bag of sugar, but she has shown a will to live that far outweighs her size.
      • His winces and stammers come from the one bag of acting tricks, marked ‘flopsweat.’
      • He said one method used to gauge a child's awareness of drug abuse is to ask them to draw the contents of ‘a bag of drugs’ found in the street.
      • They just wanted me to donate, monthly, the equivalent amount to half a bag of tea-bags.
      • The two fled, leaving the bag of cash and a sawn-off shotgun.
      • She brings it to a tall table, where Rachel's cousin Luis sits stone-faced with a bag of microwaved popcorn.
      • Unstacking some containers in the corner, she pulled out a bag of rice.
      • Tina smiles at her stepson, Cary, who is eating an entire bag of Ruffles and a container of French onion dip.
      • And then Santa arrived with his bag of Christmas gifts for everyone, courtesy of the Abbeyleix Goose Club draw.
      • The blonde was hovering over a bag of feed and a green five gallon bucket.
      • The armed robbers, one of them wearing a balaclava, demanded the publican hand over a large bag of cash as he was about to step into his silver Mercedes.
      • In my day, we had to be content with a bag of Tayto Crisps and a bottle of Cidona…
      • Visitors to the show will receive a lace bag of wedding favours, five sugared almonds which traditionally convey blessing, with a Bible text inside.
      • But he was never very good at putting things back together so that one of his friends bet another a bag of sweets that Stephen would never amount to anything.
    2. 1.2 A woman's handbag or purse.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Like any well-organized woman, Kim has her purses divided into day bags and evening bags.
      • Mrs Danswan, of Croft Road, Old Town, specialises in making elegant evening bags.
      • She found it in her bag that evening, and had slipped it into her pocket.
      • Such women are likely to be in handbag heaven this spring, as bags are at the forefront of the craze for accessories.
      • You can have your own photograph of your dog printed onto a handbag, so your bag, like your dog, will be truly one of a kind.
      • Richard was identified by a woman as the black who snatched her bag late one evening.
      • Grabbing her evening bag, she slipped in her coat and left for the airport.
      • Designer Kate Spade has achieved handbag hegemony and her boxy yet fresh bags swing from the shoulder of every New Yorker worth her manicure.
      • From tiny rucksacks through sequinned glamour bags to big mummy handbags, it's very rare to see a woman without one.
      • A woman sitting on a bench at Horseshoe Corner at 10.45 on Sunday evening had her bag snatched by a man who ran off towards the city centre.
      • The clips are being brought in to stop people having their bags or handbags snatched on a night out in Greenwich's bars and pubs.
      • But it's not only the contents of a woman's handbag which tells us about her - the actual bag can speak volumes too.
      • She tells him that it is in her evening bag, which was thrown into the bushes.
      • Usually they are made at the handbag factory from the same materials the bags are made from.
      • Kirby pulled a pen and correction fluid from her handbag before storing the bag at the back of the room on a peg.
      • In her new spring collection, which ranged from large tote bags to delicately embroidered evening bags, there was something for every occasion.
      • Let me just get my speech out of my evening bag and say thank you to everyone who has stopped by over the past year.
      • Rummaging in her evening bag, she withdrew a crumpled pack of cigarettes and a wilted book of matches.
      • They're accosted by Joan Rivers who demands to know which designer made their gown, their jewels, their evening bag.
      • You know, I've never counted, but I might have a hundred and fifty bags / handbags in my wardrobe.
      Synonyms
      handbag, shoulder bag, clutch bag, evening bag, pochette
    3. 1.3 A piece of luggage.
      she began to unpack her bags
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Checking into Hotel Residence ‘Le Rose’, his only luggage was a small bag.
      • The terminal was evacuated while a suspect bag at left luggage was investigated.
      • The woman ushered Halle into the small 2-room apartment, and grabbed one of Halle's black luggage bags.
      • She turned around, picked up her bag, the only piece of luggage she had.
      • Mr Manly said a forced door leading from the check-in area could have allowed someone to plant a bag with a Pan Am luggage label where bags were loaded on to planes.
      • By the time her husband returned home that Sunday evening, his bags were packed and set out in the living room, and a hotel reservation had been made for him.
      • Steve put the suit back into a luggage bag, put the combination lock onto it, then put it back under his desk.
      • After she unpacked her bags and organized her belongings, Wendy decided to put her shower on hold and stroll around the ship.
      • You can spend hundreds of pounds on luggage or bungee an overnight bag to the luggage rack.
      • I arrived home, my arms weighed down with bags, my luggage.
      • It didn't make me unpack my bags and cancel my flight, but it was quite an omen.
      • I just entered with my luggage, just a bag and I was put in the last room.
      • He put his bag in a luggage rack and as more passengers got on the train he was pushed further away from it.
      • I got changed and started re-packing my stuff from my bag into a suitcase.
      • I came to find Kwang-Su Oppa, and by chance I met him at the airport this afternoon when I was getting my bags from the luggage claim.
      • When I pull my luggage (a bag and a laptop) on to the taxi, the driver asked where I were going.
      • The bag was discovered among luggage from the commuter trains lost after the attacks.
      • How about buying a piece of luggage that consolidates your bags into a single carry-on that complies with all the rules and your needs?
      • Early last season he was lifting a luggage bag from a hotel lift when he twinged something.
      • Standing up quickly, Carrie went to her closet and took out her luggage bag.
      Synonyms
      suitcase, case, valise, portmanteau, holdall, carryall, grip, overnight bag, overnighter, flight bag, travelling bag, gladstone bag, carpet bag
    4. 1.4 The amount of game shot by a hunter.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The bag limit for unlisted native fish, which previously had no limit, will now be set at 10.
      • I was pleased with 24-7 because that’s not a bad bag.
      • Not a great bag, but more than enough to win this tournament tonight.
      • It was very vexatious; but still three lions were not a bad bag for one gun before dinner.
      • "Twenty pounds is not a bad bag," he said. "But I just didn't realize what it was going to take. I was in 51st place."
      • The daily bag limit can include no more than 2 white-tipped (white-fronted doves).
      • Looking at photos of other teal hunters' bags, most seem to hold a high percentage of adult male bluewings.
      • The bag limit had been a single whitefront for many years prior to that.
      • A zero bag limit will now apply to wobbegong sharks.
      • The federal framework also modified the daily bag limit for the four-day season in the SWDA.
      • In all of the zones where the hunting of this species is authorized, the bag limit is one moose per two hunters per year.
      • I love duck hunting but it's hard for me to get on the water at 5 in the morning and then have my hunt over in 10 minutes because I have taken my bag limit.
      • An illusion of an inner street, not a bad bag for the courtyard hunter.
      • Also, the agency is considering proposing an increase in the deer bag limit in those counties.
      • It's fairly unlikely that the council will recommend further cuts in the scaup bag limit for the coming season.
    5. 1.5bags A loose fold of skin under a person's eye.
      the bags under his eyes gave him a sad appearance
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Before she came on this trip she would have seen a stick-thin girl, with ratty blonde hair, blotchy skin and bags under her eyes.
      • A similar incision is made along the lower lash line to remove undereye bags and skin.
      • I was absolutely shattered, wearing a Burberry cagoule and a pair of sunglasses to hide the bags under my eyes.
      • She was aware of her pasty skin, of the bags under her eyes, and of the drawn look on her face without his comments.
      • He looked tired and worn out, with pale skin and purple bags under his eyes.
      • His face was wrinkled, large black bags under his eyes.
      • But let's not forget that for all those wrinkles and those bags under her eyes, Maine Road is still a fabulous stadium.
      • This is the magic potion/formula that will make everything all right/my skin smoother/my bags less defined.
      • Or use Photoshop to take out the wrinkles and bags under your eyes.
      • She highlights slightly pimply skin, bags under eyes and flesh taut with baby fat.
      • Sloppy jeans, baggy top, red and sore nose, black bags under my eyes and scabby skin all courtesy of the cold virus.
      • His face was wrinkled, and the bags under his eyes did not help to make him look any younger.
      • The product was reformulated, and we don't know if today's Preparation H would be at all helpful against wrinkles or bags.
      • His hair was starting to gray around the edges, and his eyes were sunken, hidden away behind bags and wrinkles that were now forming.
      • I ignored the bags under my eyes and the weight I was losing.
      • Mercia was watching her parent's faces; sallow skin, dark bags under their lifeless eyes.
      • A face has no character unless it moves, and the fleeting emotions animate the ingrained ones, the battle-damage - lines, bags, wrinkles.
      • I can only remember a glimpse of him: dark bags under his eyes, loose pant and bluish shirt.
      • When the blood circulation is slowed, some blood will collect around the eye which leads to dark circles, eye bags and wrinkles.
      • My eyes looked bloodshot, there were dark, heavy bags under them, and my naturally sun-kissed skin looked incredibly pale.
    6. 1.6bags ofBritish informal Plenty of.
      I had bags of energy
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Jeremy Noseda's colt has bags of speed and scope and will not be easily denied.
      • Rossendale came up against a team not only top of the league but also a side playing with bags of confidence.
      • He showed again he is comfortable on the ball, has bags of skill and when he tackles you, you stay tackled.
      • Perhaps someone who has just retired and has bags of energy could come on board.
      • He had looks, he had charm, he had talent, and he had bags of money, of course.
      • I imagined that at the end I'd have bags of information, anecdotes and observations.
      • Venus in Pisces is a further sign she has bags of acting and musical talent.
      • They had a decent first half and a very good second half while Hearts, despite bags of effort, had an off day.
      • There are still bags of sunshine every day and if you can get out of the wind there's some real power in it.
      • At their best, Chilean wines are unctuously juicy and intense, with bags of exotic ripe fruit.
      • Use a good, cheap cut like shoulder which becomes really tender the longer it cooks and has bags of flavour.
      • This is a delicious game bird, with bags of flavour and little or no fat.
      • We have bags of potential but I am sick of that word, we need to start winning.
      • A talented young outfit who boast bags of ability and an enthusiasm to match.
      • On the nose there are bags of ripe yeast underlined by musty hayshed flavours.
      • The world is a pretty place, you have bags of energy, and you even look forward to a train ride in to work.
      • There is bags of power from way down the rev range and loads of poke in the middle where it is needed for safe overtaking.
      • When I was 21, it was easier to put up with things when you thought you had bags of time to get where you wanted to be.
      • Only a single score down and bags of attrition time still left to play.
      • A clever premise, lots of clever ideas interwoven into the plot and just bags and bags of fun.

  • 2informal A woman, especially an older one, perceived as unpleasant, bad-tempered, or unattractive.

    an interfering old bag
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But I sure can dream about seeing a bullet lodged it that old bag's skull.
    • The old bag that gets terribly angry if neighbours leave their junkmail sitting on and around the letterboxes?
    • Tommie had to contain his laughter at how angry the old bag was getting.
    • What probably really happened is that the old bag didn't want any dark skin hands near her purist Jewish skin and she was left their to fend for herself.
    • I started with a right hook, and before I knew it I was nearly punching the stuffing out of that old bag.
    • It was the most boring two hours I'd ever spent in a theater, nothing but these wrinkled old bags in Indian hats hugging each other and crying.
    • How many times is the old bag going to play Lara Croft?
    • My good lady offered it to some old bag for £3 and she toddled off shaking her head.
    • I thought my words were going to change the world but that's all gone now and I'm just a jaded old bag.
    • He loathed the old bag more than Liz ever did, despite sharing the same political views.
    • You are sounding like that old bag that's in charge of making sure I am somewhat of a lady.
    • On the news this morning, the old bag was saying that the visitor figures for the fountain had far exceeded their predictions.
    • Perhaps it makes me seem like an old bag, but it does feel intimidating to face a gang of people, of whatever age, with intimidating body language.
    • It is a devastating piece, one that rises to violence, and yet director Marcus Romer rightly judges that Mag should not be a one-note, sour old bag.
    • Once they had lost the old bag, the six calmly went down the stairs.
    • I would probably refuse to go out with the man simply because of the snoopy old bag.
    • Doubtless your sisters-in-law will think you a patronising, self-righteous old bag, but you can't have it all ways.
    • Old bag, he thought to himself as he walked into the indicated room and settled into a chair.
    • I guess I was taking too long, because the old bag came right into the room!
    • Once I heard little more than static coming from my earpiece, I decided to humor the old bag.

  • 3one's baginformal One's particular interest or taste.

    if religion and politics are your bag, you'll find something to interest you here
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Song and dance were not her bag, but she was great and deserved a highest award for the accomplishment in this movie.
    • I tried a course in b/w photography, but realised it was not my bag either.
    • Farstar International is probably one of the best examples of bad Web design ever, but obviously that's not the guy's bag.
    • But it didn't take Scully long to figure out that coaching football was not his bag.
    • Tried out the Super Ego, and I don't know how else to say this, but it's just not my bag.
    • Not that there's anything wrong with that - but not my bag.
    • She managed to take a sip and while declaring the soup "probably delicious" she admits it is still not her bag.
    • Cheap and cheerful is certainly not our bag at all.
    • And Jay needs to just stop watching them if it's not his bag.
    • It’s a bit on the simpering side and just was not my bag, but it sure was quick to read.
    • The resort lifestyle is most certainly not our bag.
    • But keeping an office running smoothly is not her bag.
    • We could bang on about adding value, or whatever marketing thing is a hot topic at the moment, but that's not our bag.
    • Ostensibly, a Chinwag meeting about PR Online is simply not my bag, but an interface appears to be forming (think Star Trek) between PR and Blogging.
    • In other words, she didn't catch the acting bug until after realizing the nine to five work-a-day world was not her bag.
    Synonyms
    hobby, pastime, leisure activity, leisure pursuit, recreation, entertainment, diversion, amusement, relaxation

  • 4Baseball
    A base.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Because of his proximity to the base, the first baseman will tag the bag first before throwing to second.
    • At a game last week, a hitter popped the ball up in foul territory, right by the first base bag.
    • The moment Ugeto reached second base safely and left the bag, he was open game to be put out.
    • He takes a few steps past the bag and the right fielder throws the ball to the shortstop at the bag.
    • Orta was called safe on a grounder even though the throw beat him to the bag.
verbbæɡbaɡ
[with object]

  • 1Put (something) in a bag.

    customers bagged their own groceries
    we bagged up the apples
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Between them they had done the same with Carl's gear which had been bagged up in black plastic refuse sacks.
    • After that, they were bagged up for shipping and stored in the freezer until a truck came to get them.
    • It was generally bagged up with everything else and sent for land-fill.
    • These items were bagged, and carried by the plaintiff.
    • Estrada believes she lost her diamond ring while bagging sweets for a customer.
    • At the last count, more than £920 had been banked and there was more than £100 in loose change waiting to be bagged up.
    • When they went to her wardrobes, her clothes were neatly bagged up with instructions of which charity they should go to.
    • The commercial side of shipping continues to be busy, with ships arriving from Latvia carrying bagged fertiliser.
    • You were bagging groceries, but I don't think that's your real job (you were dressed as if you were a manager or something.)
    • Sometimes, kids overlook grocery jobs for teens simply because they think the only job available is bagging groceries.
    • I remember going to my job afterwards bagging groceries and I wondered if the customers had any idea what I had been doing earlier.
    • When fruit or vegetables got a bit old, they would be bagged up ready to be passed on to customers.
    • During the spring, when the money ran out, Alma got a job at the local grocery store, bagging food for women who never even looked at her face.
    • ‘We want to let people know that we do need help, whether it's in planning the event, bagging the straw nearer the day or the range of activities such as setting off the runners,’ she said.
    • So, the computer's got to be moved onto a small coffee table temporarily, and my clothes are either bagged up or hung in various locations at random!
    • Oh, and that digital frock of hers has been bagged up and sent to Oxfam.
    • The only things that go into my kitchen bin are the sometimes unavoidable plastic wrappings and, guess what, they don't have to be bagged up to throw out!
    • Leaves can be bagged up (it would help if the council supplied special bags for this) and collected later.
    • They were bagged up to be taken away by Trading Standards officers for investigation.
    • Under protocols to protect against asbestos contamination, fire personnel and equipment had to be hosed down, while their kit was bagged up and sent for specialist cleaning.

  • 2(of a hunter) succeed in killing or catching an animal.

    in 1979, handgun hunters bagged 677 deer
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Fishing close to the margins with meat, Dallton was bagging the odd nice carp until the intervention of a beast of 15-10 catapulted him to the top of the prize list.
    • Are fishing seasons and bag limits keeping marine fish stocks healthy?
    • I was nervous, but rather chuffed to have bagged such a fine specimen.
    • The free event is open to hunters bagging white-tailed deer, mule deer, or antelope in Texas during the past year.
    • The goal with professional hunter Gordon Duncan of Shangaan Hunters in Zimbabwe was to bag a Cape buffalo.
    • Field lessons learned Dove hunting can be a casual event, and many birds are bagged by hunters walking in the open or standing near vehicles, giving no thought to hiding.
    • But on that one day, Graham bagged something much more significant than a wolf or a quail…
    • Tom bagged a good sized deer and said how it would be a good idea for us to go back to his place for a meal.
    • It is our Ivory anniversary, so I'm off out to bag me an elephant.
    • Other than dove hunters, nobody bagged much out of this session.
    • Oooh, that's gotta hurt - you go hunting and the only member of the party who bags anything is your dog.
    • Kerry claims to have come-this-close to bagging a 16-point buck out on the cape.
    • She bagged a deer on her very first shoot, but found it more difficult when asked to go stalking alone.
    • Wealthy Britons pay tens of thousands to bag a lion, elephant or polar bear in trophy hunts that recreate images of a bygone colonial era
    • It was not unusual for a hunter to bag up to 40 geese or widgeon with one shot with this method.
    • We also follow Roy, from Texas, as he goes on safari to bag himself a special animal for the show.
    • Last year's statistics reveal that 1183 foreign hunters bagged over 8900 animals in the province at a cost of over R44,5 million.
    • Baiting with corn, he bagged half a dozen carp, with fish up to 7lb, for his 25 lb 12 oz.
    Synonyms
    catch, capture, trap, snare, ensnare, land
    1. 2.1 Succeed in securing (something)
      we've bagged three awards for excellence
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Westaro started the brighter with Selsby finding his shooting form early, bagging the opening basket followed by a three pointer.
      • Samyuktha Varma bagged the best actress award for her role in another film exploring post-marital affairs, ‘Megha Malhar’.
      • The 30-year-old beauty, whose character has an affair with a schoolboy in the hit popular series - admits she would be interested in bagging herself a toyboy like her racy character..
      • In the South Lakeland District Council award section, Sedbergh bagged the towns and villages trophy while Rydal Mount, Rydal, took the tourism trophy.
      • Last weekend, he collected another Scottish Cup with Celtic to add to the League title that they had already bagged a few weeks earlier.
      • Veteran artiste, Sheela, has bagged the special jury award for excellence in acting.
      • Havildar Murugesan and Havildar Chinnusamy bagged the first and second places in the automatic gun shooting.
      • They were primarily studying the igneous rocks in the region but still managed to bag a few good fossils.
      • It can't be the true bliss of bagging a bargain on a wet weekday in early January can it?
      • Earlier with Trikaya Grey and Leo Burnett, Singh has already proved his talent by being a regular winner at the Abby awards, not to mention bagging the Golden Lion at Cannes.
      • From RAMP shows and TV compering to bagging the best actress award in the small screen category for 2001, Jyothirmayee has come a long way.
      • There was little to choose between the sides in the early stages of the second-half, but Humphreys bagged a snap drop-goal to edge the visitors back in front.
      • Nimbus, IMG, Rishi Narain Golf Associates and Tiger Sports Marketing evinced keen interest in bagging the right to stage the tour.
      • But, perhaps, when you're an older guy trying to bag the younger chick then that's what you need to do.
      • Any gentleman who would bag himself a Snake lady would be ill-advised to seem too available.
      • He completed his impressive domestic set by bagging his first FA Cup goal for his current club Blackburn on January 31, 2000 at the ripe young age of 22 years and 103 days.
      • Two years ago, Ganjam bagged the runners-up award at the International Gold Virtuosi 2000.
      • Tiger Woods may win more tournaments and bag the most prize money.
      • Innocent and Gopika bagged the best character actor and actress awards for their roles in Vesham.
      • Though the civic body invited short-term tenders for the work, the Land Army Corporation has bagged the contract, as its bid was the lowest, the sources said.
      Synonyms
      get, secure, obtain, acquire

  • 3no object (of clothes, especially pants) hang loosely or lose shape.

    these trousers never bag at the knee
    Example sentencesExamples
    • If I am wearing pantyhose, I double check to ensure there is no laughable bagging at the ankles.
    • He smiled innocently, pulling his shirt up and letting his checkered pants bag low under his hips.
    • The real results are the most promising: dropped two sizes, clothes bagging off, muscle definition and, best of all, people saying, “What are you doing?"
    • To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth.
    • Her jeans, partially soaked from splashing onto the street, now seemed almost like they were made for her, because as she moved they moved too, not bagging at the knees.
    • Even he himself could not even begin to imagine, his gangly frame, messy unsettled jet black hair gleaming, his green eyes shining, his huge elephant skin like clothes bagging off of him.
    • I'm tired of being the 5'7 115lb runt in a group of much larger kids, and i'm tired of clothes bagging off of my scrawny body.
    • Premium prewashed cotton with a touch of Lycra elastane holds its shape without bagging at the knees.
    • I feel there is nothing wrong with bagging pants as long as your actual underwear and behind is not showing.
    • My mom and dad came out dressed in their snow gear, and Raine stumbled out with her mess of cute, layered sweaters, snow boots with her pants bagging low.
    • He looked small and young with my clothes bagging off his thin frame, but his face had matured.
    • Choosing the next size larger, the women will only experience sagging and bagging at the ankles after wearing them a short period of time.
    • Instantly, he felt himself become smaller, his clothes bagging like a boy dressing up in his father's things.
    • So what if my pants are bagging at the ankles and I have to keep pulling them up every 5 seconds.
    • The cloak he wore bagged over his body, making his frail stature appear sturdier.
    Synonyms
    sag, hang loosely, bulge, swell, balloon
    1. 3.1 Swell or bulge.

  • 4North American informal Quit; give up on.

    it was a drag to be in the ninth grade at 17, so he bagged it
    Example sentencesExamples
    • About twenty years ago, the Connection Machine was supposed to be the big new paradigm, but before long they bagged it.
    • We spent about an hour there, snapping Zoe action photos and playing, but it was a little too windy and nippy for us, so we bagged it and headed home.
    • Once you lift it and start driving with the larger tires you'll wish you bagged it and saved on gas.
    • Let's bag it before this gets ugly.

  • 5North American informal Fit (a patient) with an oxygen mask or other respiratory aid.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Whether we tube him or not someone still has to bag him, and he seems to be doing fine with what we’re doing.
    • Bag him at a rate of 30. Check for breath sounds bilaterally.
    • They also maintained airway management and continued to bag him.
    • We then bag her for a while more, and then wean her off oxygen.
    • In the ambulance, the EMTs took the decedent's vital signs, continued to bag him with high-flow oxygen, monitored his heart, and gave him CPR.

Phrases

  • bag and baggage

    • With all one's belongings.

      he threw her out bag and baggage
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I was on a three-week vacation and it turned me into shifting bag and baggage to India.
      • They could be moved bag and baggage to some isolated northern wilderness.
      • Before a year had passed the regiment was ordered to be re-established, and our household decamped with bag and baggage for Dublin.
      • Having no other alternative place to go to, they moved bag and baggage to the City Railway Station triggering off utter chaos and confusion there.
      • The next move landed us only at Jammu without bag and baggage and reeling under the tremendous agony, desperation and exasperation, thinking what is in our fate.
      • The town of Ellis moved bag and baggage to Tracy including moving two hotels.
      • They found it expedient, therefore, to fall back upon the old bag and baggage argument about the Ottoman Empire “being foreign to Western civilization.”
      • Finally they packed up bag and baggage and moved to Coyote, some miles west along Coyote Creek.
      • The Kollywood fraternity has packed bag and baggage for a hectic week abroad, doing what they do best - entertaining.
      • At Wagah, every passenger has to once again disembark with bag and baggage for the Pakistani round of immigration checks.
      • The next day, I was singled out as an ‘S’ passenger at the airport; I presume the S stood for ‘suspect’, since I was searched head-to-toe, bag and baggage, almost misplacing my Christmas present.
      • She packs bag and baggage and leaves with a vague address for a relative in the big city (Delhi).
      • I happen to believe that she was right to refuse to compromise with Galtieri and to insist that the Argentinians had to leave the Falklands, bag and baggage.
      • The council estate consists of 10 single-story units where a number of families and elderly citizens moved in, bag and baggage, at the official opening of the estate on Monday, February 9.
      • Ms Hughes added: ‘After getting the council's letter last week I told them I had no choice but to move bag and baggage and that I was moving into private rented accommodation.’
      • Nobody is packing up bag and baggage and leaving.
      • The man issued his proclamation declaring Chinatown to be a “nuisance,” and requiring its inhabitants to get out with their bag and baggage within thirty days.
      • Town proprietor John Nininger ‘was sued for one of his debts $1200, and he ran off bag and baggage in a hurry leaving a number of unpaid debts behind him.’
      • In the end he went bag and baggage over to Lachmann's camp.
      • The offer of the Waco church was accepted and in 1896, students and faculty moved bag and baggage to Waco.

  • a bag of bones

    • informal An emaciated person or animal.

      the pony is just a bag of bones
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He's a bag of bones, he's not terribly pretty, and he was labeled "fractious" on his very first day at the pound.
      • Brooke said carrying the dog was "like carrying a bag of bones down the hill."
      • She was so pretty and he was just a bag of bones that forgot to stop walking about.
      • If it hadn't been for the campaign these 90 kilogram women would have been a bag of bones waiting to die.
      • You got me specially tailored-made clothing, so I would not feel so depressed being just a bag of bones.
      • It seems like too much energy for a bag of bones /And for the lucky souls /Waters wash away the cobwebs
      • It's easy, almost convenient, to forget that my cadaver is a man, not just a bag of bones and skin and connective tissue glued together with embalming fluid.
      • At least she's not a bag of bones and is cuter than Lohan, Barton, Bosworth, ect, ect.
      • The young cat is fatter the old cat is a bag of bones, but happy.
      • A dog owner told a court how his pet was 'just a bag of bones' when he went to collect him from boarding kennels.
      • While confined to a wheelchair just a few months ago and "just a bag of bones," Adams has gained 25 lb.
      • I'm just a bag of bones, drifting like a large, hyper-evolved amoeba from stimulus to stimulus.
      • Personally I don't find bodies that are a bag of bones attractive.
      • It was just a bag of bones which could barely stand it was so weak.
      • We've found animals wandering around the paddock, just a bag of bones, totally covered in scabs, hardly a hair on their body.
      Synonyms
      nag, inferior horse, tired-out horse, worn-out horse, rosinante

  • a bag of tricks

    • informal A set of ingenious plans, techniques, or resources.

      hoteliers are using a whole new bag of tricks to keep their guests on the premises
      Example sentencesExamples
      • However, he's also opened up a whole new bag of tricks for this latest adventure.
      • This classic objective adds multipitch rock climbing and a thrilling 150-foot rappel to your bag of tricks.
      • On the other hand, he's frustratingly comfortable recycling from his old kit bag of tricks.
      • It means that pretending is no longer in our bag of tricks.
      • By making it a ‘free for all’ society, there is no right or wrong, only an interpretation by unelected judges and lawyers with the biggest bags of tricks.
      • Realising that a win can only be achieved by taking the game to Brothers and applying the pressure relentlessly until they crack, Workers delved deep into their baseball bag of tricks.
      • Everyone here is very professional, very focused and has many resources in their bag of tricks.
      • Like others who have survived these battles, I eagerly await the arrival of MT 3.0 technology because it means I can integrate Typekey into my bag of tricks.
      • Oh yes, he was thinking, I have a bag of tricks right here.
      • The Brothers Chaps brought their bag of tricks with them; they were sitting on stage behind their laptops, with the Homestar puppet by Matt's side.
      • If you want to see the whole bag of tricks, consider the ultimate winter animal, the polar bear.
      • And this their debut mini album - though a mixed bag of tricks - has enough melodic dexterity to cross over from hype to the actual hands of the commercial buying public.
      • But some Marines are now digging into their own bag of tricks, getting ready, making their own explosive charges.
      • Poe may not have the capacity of Ernest, but he's crafty and I'm certain he brought his whole bag of tricks with him.
      • The whole bag of tricks of the average business man, or even of the average professional man, is inordinately childish.
      • My favorite is actually one that he wrote that I rarely pull out of the bag of tricks which is called ‘Easy to be Free.’
      • She's got Kevin's sense of what's out there, however, and it's inevitable that she's going to outgrow Jerry's dime-store bag of tricks.
      • I've been firewooding for about ten fully educational years now, and today I learned a new one from firewood's bag of tricks that's going straight into my Firewood Tactics Analysis File.
      • The mind boggles at the richness of invention in these strips, the constant surprises Herriman proves himself capable of pulling from some unfathomable bag of tricks.
      • But slowly things became easier for him as he developed a whole bag of tricks at making his life easier.

  • in the bag

    • 1informal (of something desirable) as good as secured.

      the election is in the bag
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The job was in the bag as far as Miles - egotistical Miles - was concerned.
      • With the election in the bag, he may then be forced to rethink the need for tax rises.
      • The fact that today's speech will focus on the need for unity suggests that the chancellor is not one of those who sees a third Labour victory as in the bag.
      • Typical Wexford, we should have had it in the bag, but we let it slip.
      • Johnson is also upset by the talk, mainly by Calzaghe's side, that the Tarver-Calzaghe match is already in the bag.
      • This time, with their event in the bag, they can stand aloof.
      • However, it would be foolhardy to believe that a deal is in the bag.
      • China steps on to the pitch at the World Cup finals this year with one victory already in the bag.
      • But at Gladstone Primary, they're just as confident they've got the trophy in the bag.
      • The president, in other words, probably had the 2004 election in the bag all along.
      • Croydon Athletic must have thought the points were in the bag when they took the lead on eight minutes against lowly Horsham on Saturday.
      • With several other clubs waiting in the wings, however, Rovers know there's still some way to go before a deal is formally in the bag.
      • With promotion in the bag and the Wilkinson Sword Trophy in the cabinet, Reid was still acclaiming a successful season.
      • It's as though he just wishes it would go away until the next election is in the bag.
      • Even thought I had the job in the bag, I've decided not to take it.
      • This is the arrogance of a government who thinks they've got the election in the bag.
      • The League Cup is in the bag and the title was secured amid the most emotional of scenes last week at Parkhead that will live long in the memory of those who took part.
      • That final looked in the bag for the visitors out the country but the home team staged a fantastic rally to bring the issue down to the wire.
      • He thought he had their political support and their votes, and therefore the election, in the bag.
      • That said, if Lance repeats yesterday's performance, he's got it in the bag.

    • 2informal Drunk.

      I don't think my parents even suspected that I was half in the bag
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Already eight a.m. and she was in the bag.
      • At this point Nick was too far in the bag to continue.
      • No, I think that when I’m that far in the bag some deeper, primeval urge takes over and I am compelled to do inappropriate things.
      • The story was that, after a long night in the pubs, he was in the bag.
      • The same student admitted Sweeney seemed a bit in the bag.
      • For my delicate sensibilities, I'm halfway in the bag.
      • Since the Bruisers played first that day both of them were half in the bag on Bass Ale.
      • Mike was a soldier who was always more than half in the bag.
      • Most of the interviews were done with troops that were half in the bag.
      • Because turbulence when you're half in the bag is just as bad as turbulence when you're sober.
      • I can’t be the only one who blogs when she’s half in the bag, right?
      • Once he was in the bag, the King let it slip that some Norwegians might be headed our way trying to invade Scotland.
      • I don't know if he was half in the bag the way a lot of the waiters seemed to be, or not.
      • Cluff sounded half in the bag and really did not impress me at all with his monotone delivery.
      • He's also a shy boy, and throughout most of the dinner, he was in the bag.
      Synonyms
      intoxicated, inebriated, drunken, befuddled, incapable, tipsy, the worse for drink, under the influence, maudlin

Phrasal Verbs

  • bag on

    • Criticize.

      I don't know why everyone is bagging on Palmer
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There are a lot of smug haters out there who bag on my choice of a name, but I don't care about what they think.
      • I always hate to bag on a movie but I have to admit that this one was a tough one to get through.
      • For you losers that are bagging on her about this being her third marriage she was married the first time for 4 years, the second time for 16 years.
      • I don't know why people are still bagging on her.
      • It's not my style to bag on people unless they do something egregiously wrong.
      • We all love original horror films and a lot of us love to bag on studios and their horror remakes, gimmicks and 3D trickery.
      • There's no need to bag on someone for not agreeing with you.
      • People like to bag on The Walking Dead because it concerns itself more with people arguing than people fighting zombies, but that's the whole point.
      • Ah, everybody's bagging on Frankie.
      • He says I've been bagging on the Phillies too much.
      • As much as we bag on our elected officials (and deservedly so) this is the kind of stuff that takes up a large portion of their day.
      Synonyms
      find fault with, censure, denounce, condemn, arraign, attack, lambaste, pillory, disapprove of, carp at, cavil at, rail against, inveigh against, cast aspersions on, pour scorn on, disparage, denigrate, deprecate, malign, vilify, besmirch, run down, give a bad press to

Origin

Middle English: perhaps from Old Norse baggi.

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