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Noun: bag  bag
  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. A place that the runner must touch before scoring
    "he scrambled to get back to the bag";
    - base
     
  4. A container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)
    "she reached into her bag and found a comb";
    - handbag, pocketbook, purse
     
  5. The quantity that a bag will hold
    "he ate a large bag of popcorn";
    - bagful
     
  6. A portable rectangular container for carrying clothes
    "he carried his small bag onto the plane with him";
    - traveling bag [US], travelling bag, grip, suitcase
     
  7. [informal] An ugly or ill-tempered woman
    "he was romancing the old bag for her money";
    - old bag [informal]
     
  8. Mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)
    - udder
     
  9. [informal] An activity that you like or at which you are superior
    "his bag now is learning to play golf";
    - dish [informal]
Verb: bag (bagged,bagging)  bag
  1. Put into a bag
    "The supermarket clerk bagged the groceries"
     
  2. Make first claim on something; take possession of
    - bagsy [UK]
     
  3. (hunting) capture or kill, as in hunting
    "bag a few pheasants"
     
  4. Hang loosely, like an empty bag
     
  5. Bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
    - bulge
     
  6. [informal] Take unlawfully
    - pocket
     
  7. [Austral, informal] Criticize sarcastically

Derived forms: bagging, bagged, bags

Type of: activity, baggage, baseball equipment, capture, catch, container, containerful, disagreeable woman, droop, flag, indefinite quantity, jut, jut out, luggage, mamma, mammary gland, pack, project, protrude, rip [N. Amer, informal], rip off [informal], sag, steal, stick out, swag, unpleasant woman

Part of: baseball diamond, cow, diamond, ewe, infield, moo-cow [informal], nanny, nanny-goat, she-goat

Encyclopedia: Bag, Khash