bag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæɡ/
ipa: /ˈbɛɡ/
note: Upper Midwestern US
ipa: /ˈbeɪɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: bags
form: bagging
form: bagged
form: bagged
Etymology: 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.
Senses: glosses: To put into a bag.
examples: text: We bagged three deer yesterday.
text: He was a fine specimen, very large and with a beautiful coat, and I wish I had had the luck to bag him.
ref: 1909, John Claude White, Sikhim and Bhutan, page 55:
text: "As a matter of fact my thoughts were flashing between Ronda and that man-eating tiger I'm going to bag tomorrow."
ref: 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XIV, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 147:
glosses: To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
examples: text: the two opposition groups have bagged almost 300 of the 500 seats contested in the election.
ref: 2023 May 14, Tan Tam Mei, “Thai election: Early results show opposition parties in the lead”, in The Straits Times:
glosses: To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
examples: text: "I am sure nobody would mind," said Susan. "It isn't as if we wanted to take them out of the house; we shan't take them even out of the wardrobe."
"I never thought of that, Su," said Peter. "Of course, now you put it that way, I see. No one could say you had bagged a coat as long as you leave it in the wardrobe where you found it. And I suppose this whole country is in the wardrobe."
ref: 1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe:
glosses: To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
To steal.
examples: text: When we hit the club to go and hell-raise / Probably end up baggin' the cocktail waitress
ref: 2020, “Those Kinda Nights”, in Music to Be Murdered By, performed by Eminem ft. Ed Sheeran:
glosses: To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
examples: text: Free bro, free bro, we got bagged for a M
ref: 2021 January 29, JS x Jtrapz, “Straight On Smoke”, 0:54–0:56:
glosses: To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
To arrest.
synonyms: nick
examples: text: a bee bagged with his honeyed venom
ref: 1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
glosses: To furnish or load with a bag.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To furnish or load with a bag.
To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
examples: text: The patient was bagged for a urine analysis and stat electrolytes were drawn.
ref: 1985, Sol S. Zimmerman, Joan Holter Gildea, Critical Care Pediatrics, page 205:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To furnish or load with a bag.
To fit with a bag to collect urine.
examples: text: The skin bags from containing morbid matter.
text: The brisk wind bagged the sails.
glosses: To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.
examples: text: His trousers bag at the knees.
ref: 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter III, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
text: And this uniform did not even fit me so well. But what is a little bagging on the waist and tightness under the arm when you are a gallant member of the British Royal Air Force?
ref: 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 11, in Small Island, London: Review, page 125:
glosses: To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
To hang like an empty bag.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
To drop away from the correct course.
examples: text: VVell, Venus ſhortly bagged, and ere long vvas Cupid bread, […]
ref: 1602, William Warner, “The Sixt Booke. Chapter XXX.”, in Albions England. A Continued Historie of the Same Kingdome, from the Originals of the First Inhabitants thereof: […], 5th edition, London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant for George Potter, […], →OCLC, page 148:
glosses: To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
To become pregnant.
examples: text: I may just bag that. I think poets have an obligation to boost the magazines they appear in.
ref: 1977, The Publication of Poetry and Fiction, page 97:
text: Well, even if your VCR is still blinking “12:00," I hope you're smart enough to stay inside when it's that cold and just bag that workout.
ref: 1998, Ed Burke, Precision Heart Rate Training, page 78:
text: I will just bag that. If not in the trade bill, that people believe should not interfere with the President's ability to negotiate a trade agreement, how would it be dealt with?
ref: 1999, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, 105-1 Hearing: Implementation of Fast Track Trade Authority:
text: 'Oh bag that,' said Nelson. 'Do the Edmund stuff — no, cut, we'll do it later, look, it's knocking midnight.'
ref: 2002, Glyn Maxwell, Time's Fool: A Tale in Verse, page 296:
text: “Or we can bag that part of it and just go straight inside,” Bolan suggested.
ref: 2007, Don Pendleton, Ripple Effect, page 322:
text: I'll get the sonofa—” “Listen, just bag that punchout shit for the moment. You've got a problem, and don't forget it.
ref: 2014, Harlan Ellison, Spider Kiss:
glosses: To forget, ignore, or get rid of.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To laugh uncontrollably.
glosses: To criticise sarcastically.
Derived terms: word: bag and tag
word: bag barrow
word: bag down
word: bag off
word: bags
word: bagsy
word: shag bag
word: shag-bag
word: slag-bag
word: wheat bag