bag
IPA: bˈæg
noun
- A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
- 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.
- (colloquial) One's preference.
- (derogatory) An ugly woman.
- (baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
- (baseball) First, second, or third base.
- (preceded by the) A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
- (mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
- A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
- (now historical) A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
- The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
- (UK) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
- (chiefly in the plural) A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
- (informal) A large number or amount.
- (slang)
- (countable, uncountable) In certain phrases: money.
- (US, gay slang, derogatory) A fellow gay man.
- A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
- (vulgar) The scrotum.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) £1000, a grand.
verb
- (transitive) To put into a bag.
- (transitive) To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
- (informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
- To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
- (slang) To steal.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.
- (slang) To arrest.
- (transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.
- (transitive, medicine) To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
- (transitive, medicine) To fit with a bag to collect urine.
- To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
- (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.
- To hang like an empty bag.
- (nautical, intransitive) To drop away from the correct course.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To become pregnant.
- To forget, ignore, or get rid of.
- (slang, African American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
- (Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.
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Examples of "bag" in Sentences
- The bag was stolen.
- The bag is ponderable.
- The bags were impounded.
- He tried to seal the bag.
- The ship was laded with bags.
- You have such a threadbare bag of tricks.
- Does every bag also have a bit of gristle
- Smaller grocers will have 12 months to phase out the bags.
- I will try to find your bag if I have a chance to go there.
- On the floor, there was a bag containing syringes and heroin paraphernalia.
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