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bag

UK/baɡ/ US/bæɡ/ very common informal slang uk us

noun

1.

a flexible container with a single opening

  • “he stuffed his laundry into a large bag”
2.

the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person)

  • “his bag included two deer”
3.

place that runner must touch before scoring

  • “he scrambled to get back to the bag”
Synonyms
4.

a bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)

  • “she reached into her bag and found a comb”
5.

the quantity that a bag will hold

  • “he ate a large bag of popcorn”
Synonyms
6.

a portable rectangular traveling bag for carrying clothes

  • “he carried his small bag onto the plane with him”
7.

an ugly or ill-tempered woman

  • “he was romancing the old bag for her money”
Synonyms
8.

mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)

Synonyms
9.

an activity that you like or at which you are superior

  • “chemistry is not my cup of tea”
  • “his bag now is learning to play golf”
  • “marriage was scarcely his dish”

verb

1.

capture or kill, as in hunting

  • “bag a few pheasants”
3.

bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge

Synonyms
4.
5.

put into a bag

  • “The supermarket clerk bagged the groceries”

Phrases

  • air bag
  • airline bag
  • airsick bag
  • airsickness bag
  • Ali Baba bag
  • all that and a bag of chips
  • all that and a bag of potato chips
  • arrow bag
  • bag and tag
  • bag barrow
  • bag down
  • bag off

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