bag
nounUS, UK /bæɡ/ · UK /baɡ/
Etymology Inherited from Middle English bagge, from Old Norse baggi (“bag, pack, satchel, bundle”) (whence also Old French bague (“bundle, package, sack”)); related to Old Norse bǫggr (“harm, shame; load, burden”), of uncertain origin.
21 senses
- 1A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic…
- 2A container made of leather, plastic, or other material…
- 3One's preference.
- 4An ugly woman.
- 5The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
- 6First, second, or third base.
- 7A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a…
- 8A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike…
- 9A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
- 10An udder, especially the pendulous one of a dairy cow.
- 11The human female breast.
- 12A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair…
- 13The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
- 14A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
- 15A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep…
- 16A large number or amount.
- 17In certain phrases: money.
- 18A fellow gay man.
- 19A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
- 20The scrotum.
- 21£1000, a grand.
1
A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
2
A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, briefcases, handbags, backpacks, etc.
3
Colloquial One's preference.
- Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music.
- And from then on, his bag was silence. Silence and killing.1976, Newton Thornburg, Cutter and Bone, Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 250:
1 more example
- They knew it and sometimes used it as a way to get her to glox on, which was not her usual bag.1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 20:
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Derogatory An ugly woman.
5
Ball games, Baseball, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
- The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.
6
Ball games, Baseball, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports First, second, or third base.
- He headed back to the bag.
7
A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
Preceded by the
8
Mathematics, Sciences A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
- A bag of three apples could be represented symbolically as {a,a,a}. Or, letting 'r' denote 'red apple' and 'g' denote 'green apple', then a bag of three red apples and two green apples could be denoted as {r,r,r,g,g}.
9
A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
- the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents
10
An udder, especially the pendulous one of a dairy cow.
- Meronym: teats
- Her bag is coming in nicely now.
11
Plural normally The human female breast.
12
Historical A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
- [H]e had once lost his bag, and a considerable quantity of hair, which had been cut off by some rascal in his passage through Ludgate, during the lord mayor's procession.1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
- He had on a suit of Manchester velvet, Lined with white satten, a Bag, lace Ruffles, and a very handsome sword which the King had given to him.1774, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, 1 December
13
The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
14
UK A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
15
In plural A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
- With gravel stuck to my cheek, I pulled myself back in the car, looked in the rearview mirror, and saw, looking back at me, a young man with a pale face and a purple bag under each eye. I looked pitiful […]2013, Ken Ilgunas, Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom, page 14:
16
Informal A large number or amount.
17
Slang In certain phrases: money.
- What about the time you got shot eight times and then played a show the same week? ¶ Oh yeah that was beautiful, I mean it was fucked up that I was shot, but as far as goin' to get that bag I'm always gonna go get that bag.2014 August 28, Sam Wilhoit, quoting OJ da Juiceman, “The Life and Times of OJ da Juiceman”, in VICE, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2023:
- A bag refers to money. So to get a bag or even secure a bag means that you are acquiring money.[2019 February 6, Rasha Ali, “Get hip to all the slang words and phrases your kids are using and what they mean, okurrr”, in USA Today, McLean, V.A.: Gannett, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 May 2023:
1 more example
- Secure the bag, secure the bag Grab the stash and hit the trap2019 April 4, “Secure The Bag”, Skripteh (lyrics), 1:33:
18
LGBT US, Derogatory, Slang A fellow gay man.
19
Slang A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
- Coulda got a bag last year But now I get a bag for a verse2017 May 2, Figure Flows, “Money Right”, in Big Figures ft. Purple, from 1:18:
- My hoodie cost a bag three, my runners cost a bag two2023 June 18, “100mph Freestyle x3”, Clavish (lyrics), 1:30:
- Derived terms
484 terms
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