bag | Lernwerd

Forms

1.A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
- Without getting up, he dragged his bag across the floor.
2.One's preference.(colloquial)
- And from then on, his bag was silence. Silence and killing.
- Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music.
- They knew it and sometimes used it as a way to get her to glox on, which was not her usual bag.
3.An ugly woman.
- Without getting up, he dragged his bag across the floor.
4.A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, briefcases, handbags, backpacks, etc.
- Without getting up, he dragged his bag across the floor.

1.To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
- He was a fine specimen, very large and with a beautiful coat, and I wish I had had the luck to bag him.
- "As a matter of fact my thoughts were flashing between Ronda and that man-eating tiger I'm going to bag tomorrow."
- We bagged three deer yesterday.
2.To put into a bag.
3.To furnish or load with a bag.
- The patient was bagged for a urine analysis and stat electrolytes were drawn.
4.To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
- His trousers bag at the knees.
- The brisk wind bagged the sails.
- The skin bags from containing morbid matter.

Common· #1084

Etymology tree

Old Norse baggibor.?

Old French baguebor.?

Middle English bagge

English bag