bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæɡ/
ipa: /ˈbɛɡ/
note: Upper Midwestern US
ipa: /ˈbeɪɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: bags
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: synonyms: word: sack
word: tote
word: poke
glosses: A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music.
text: And from then on, his bag was silence. Silence and killing.
ref: 1976, Newton Thornburg, Cutter and Bone, Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 250:
text: They knew it and sometimes used it as a way to get her to glox on, which was not her usual bag.
ref: 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 20:
synonyms: word: cup of tea
word: thing
word: affinity
word: bag
word: bent
word: cup of coffee
word: cup of joe
word: cup of tea
word: fancy
word: liking
word: partiality
word: penchant
word: predilection
word: predisposition
word: preference
word: proclivity
word: propension
word: propensity
word: shine
word: taste
word: thing
glosses: One's preference.
synonyms: dog
hag
glosses: An ugly woman.
examples: text: The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
examples: text: He headed back to the bag.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: First, second, or third base.
qualifier: preceded by the
glosses: A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
examples: text: 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}.
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: multiset
glosses: A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
examples: text: the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents
glosses: A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
examples: text: Meronym: teats
text: Her bag is coming in nicely now.
glosses: A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
An udder, especially the pendulous one of a dairy cow.
synonyms: milkbag
glosses: A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
The human female breast.
synonyms: word: milkbag
word: funbag
word: assets
word: babylons
word: balloons
word: baps
word: badonkers
word: bangers
word: bazongas
word: bazookas
word: bazoombas
word: bazooms
word: bewbs
word: bobas
word: booba
word: boobage
word: boobs
word: boobers
word: boobies
word: boosies
word: bosom
word: breast [⇒ thesaurus]s
word: breasticles
word: bristols
word: bubby
word: bubs
word: bust
word: calcium cannons
word: cans
word: cantaloupes
word: casabas
word: charlies
word: chebs
word: chesticles
word: chest melons
word: chichis
word: coconuts
word: diddy
word: ding-dongs
word: dirty pillows
word: double Ds
word: dugs
word: frontage
word: front bumpers
word: funbags
word: gazongas
word: girls
word: globes
word: grapefruits
word: headlights
word: honkers
word: hooters
word: itty-bittys
word: jahoobies
word: jigglies
word: jubblies
word: jugs
word: knockers
word: lady lumps
word: love pillows
word: mammaries
word: mammary glands
word: mammas
word: maracas
word: megaboobs
word: melons
word: milkbags
word: milk jugs
word: milkers
word: mommy milkers
word: money makers
word: mountain [⇒ thesaurus]s
word: norks
word: paps
word: pair
word: personality
word: puppies
word: rack
word: sweater puppies
word: tatas
word: teats
word: tiddies
word: tits
word: titters
word: titties
word: threepenny bits
word: top bollocks
word: torpedos
word: twin peaks
word: twins
word: udders
word: waps
word: watermelons
word: yabos
word: zoomers
examples: text: [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.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: 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.
ref: 1774, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, 1 December
glosses: A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
glosses: The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
glosses: A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
examples: text: 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 […]
ref: 2013, Ken Ilgunas, Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom, page 14:
glosses: A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
glosses: A large number or amount.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: A bag refers to money. So to get a bag or even secure a bag means that you are acquiring money.
ref: [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:
text: Secure the bag, secure the bag
Grab the stash and hit the trap
ref: 2019 April 4, “Secure The Bag”, Skripteh (lyrics), 1:33:
glosses: In certain phrases: money.
topics: LGBT
glosses: A fellow gay man.
glosses: A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
glosses: The scrotum.
examples: text: Coulda got a bag last year
But now I get a bag for a verse
ref: 2017 May 2, Figure Flows, “Money Right”, in Big Figures ft. Purple, from 1:18:
text: My hoodie cost a bag three, my runners cost a bag two
ref: 2023 June 18, “100mph Freestyle x3”, Clavish (lyrics), 1:30:
glosses: £1000, a grand.
Derived terms: airbag
air bag
airline bag
Ali Baba bag
all that and a bag of chips
all that and a bag of potato chips
arrow bag
assbag
baby bag
bag and baggage
bag and band
bag barrow
bagboy
bag boy
bag-carrier
bag for life
bagful
baggable
baggage
bag gas
bagger
baggie
baggy
baghead
bagholder
baghouse
bag-in-box
bagism
bag job
bag knot
bag lady
bagless
baglike
bagload
bag lunch
bagmaker
bagmaking
bagman
bag man
bagmoth
bag nasty
bag of antlers
bag of bones
bag of dicks
bag of fruit
bag of holding
bag of mystery
bag of nerves
bag of rations
bag of shells
bag of tricks
bag of waters
bag of weasels
bag of wind
bag of words
bag out
bag people
bag phone
bagpipes
bagplot
bag plum
bagpod
bag pudding
bag reef
bagroom
bag silo
bag snatcher
bag up
bagwash
bagwoman
bagwork
bagworm
ball bag
ballbag
banana bag
bandolier bag
barf bag
barracks bag
barrel bag
bathroom bag
beach bag
bean bag
beanbag
bean-bag
belly bag
belt bag
betel bag
bin bag
binbag
bin-bag
biobag
Birkin bag
bitch bag
bivi bag
bivvy bag
black-bag
black bag
black bag job
black bag operation
blackout bag
Blighty bag
blind bag
blow in the bag
blow out one's bags
blue bag
board bags
body bag
Bogota bag
boil-in-bag
boil-in-the-bag
bonk bag
book bag
booster bag
bota bag
bowling bag
boxing bag
breadbag
bread-bag
bread bag
bread-bag clip
brief-bag
brown-bag
brown bag
brown bagging
brown bag test
brown paper bag party
brown paper bag test
bucket bag
bugout bag
bug-out bag
bulge in the onion bag
bulge the onion bag
bum bag
burlap bag
burn bag
butt bag
carpetbag
carpet-bag
carrier bag
carrot bag
carry bag
chaffbag
chalk bag
change bag
changing bag
chatterbag
chest bag
clackerbag
cloak bag
clothes-bag
clothes bag
clutch bag
coalbag
cockbag
coffee bag
colostomy bag
continuous bag of words
cool bag
cooler bag
courier bag
cryobag
cuntbag
D-bag
debag
diaper bag
dickbag
dilli bag
dilly bag
dime bag
dime-bag
diplomatic bag
dirt bag
dirtbag
ditty bag
dog bag
doggie bag
doggy bag
doofbag
Dorothy bag
dossbag
double-bagger
douche bag
douchebag
Douglas bag
drybag
duffle bag
dumb as a bag of hammers
dumber than a bag of hammers
dustbag
dust bag
earthbag
eat a bag of dicks
electronic flight bag
emery bag
endobag
exit bag
eye bags
bag around one's eye
bag around the eye
bag below one's eye
bag below the eye
bag beneath one's eye
bag beneath the eye
bag under one's eye
bag under the eye
eye bag
under-eye bag
undereye bag
face like a bag of spanners
Faraday bag
farding-bag
feedbag
feed-bag
feed bag
flag bag
flea bag
flea-bag
fleabag
fleshbag
flesh-bag
footbag
freezer bag
fuckbag
fudgebag
fumble the bag
fun bags
gamebag
game bag
garbage bag
garment bag
gasbag
geobag
get home bag
gift bag
giftbag
gig bag
give someone the bag
Gladstone bag
glovebag
go bag
go-bag
golf bag
goody bag
goodie bag
grab-bag
grab bag
green bag
green-bag
Gro-bag
grocery bag
grotbag
grouch bag
growbag
grow bag
gunny-bag
gym bag
half in the bag
handbag
hanging wet bag
have the world by the bag
hay bag
haybag
ho-bag
ho bag
hobo bag
hockey bag
hoebag
hoe bag
hoe-bag
hoggan-bag
holdall
carryall
tote
tote bag
honeybag
hornbag
hosebag
hot bag
hot water bag
ice bag
I lost my bag
in the bag
in the bottom of the bag
ita-bag
it bag
jellybag
jerrybag
Jewbag
jiffy bag
Jiffy bag
jiffy-bag
johnny bag
kit bag
kitbag
leave someone holding the bag
let the cat out of the bag
like a bag of ferrets
like ferrets in a bag
litterbag
lucky bag
maggot bag
mail bag
mailbag
man bag
man-bag
mealbag
meatbag
medicine bag
mess bag
messenger bag
milkbag
mingebag
minibag
mix bag
mixed bag
modesty bag
moneybag
money bag
monkey bag
moon bag
multibag
multibagger
mummy bag
muzzle-bag
mystery bag
nappy bag
netbag
nickel bag
nose-bag
nose bag
nosebag
nunny bag
nutbag
old bag
onion bag
overnight bag
pack one's bags
paper-bag
paper bag
paperbag
paper bag job
paper bag party
paper bag test
paperbag waist
party bag
pastry bag
piece-bag
piece bag
pillow bag
piping bag
pissbag
plastic bag
Politzer bag
polybag
poop bag
poopbag
possibles bag
postbag
post bag
powder-bag
property bag
pull out of the bag
punchbag
punching bag
purple urine bag syndrome
pusbag
puss in a bag
put the fries in the bag
ratbag
rattlebag
rebag
red bag
red bag delivery
rice bag
rollbag
rubbish bag
rune bag
saddle bag
saddle-bag
saddlebag
sag bag
sandbag
sando bag
sandwich bag
schoolbag
scruffbag
scumbag
seabag
seedbag
shellbag
shit bag
shitbag
shitebag
shoebag
shopping bag
shopping-bag lady
shoulder bag
shoulderbag
show bag
showbag
sick bag
sickbag
side bag
silo bag
singlet bag
skunkbag
sleazebag
sleeping bag
slimebag
sling bag
slut bag
slut-bag
slutbag
snotbag
specimen bag
speed bag
spice bag
sponge bag
sponge-bag
sponge-bag pants
sports bag
squint like a bag of nails
stinkbag
stoma bag
subbag
sugar bag
sugarbag
sugar-bag
suicide bag
survival bag
swag bag
tea-bag
teabag
tea bag
telescope bag
the cat's out of the bag
throw bag
tog bag
toilet bag
toiletry bag
toolbag
trash bag
travel bag
travelling bag
tricken bag
tuckerbag
unbag
vacuum bag
vampire tea bag
waist bag
warbag
washbag
wash bag
water bag
water-bag
waterbag
way out of a paper bag
way out of a wet paper bag
wazzbag
weekend bag
weekender bag
wet bag
what's in the bag
wheat bag
wheelie bag
whingebag
whole bag of tricks
windbag
winebag
workbag
yoga bag
zoom bag