bag
Pronunciation: /bæɡ/
The English word “bag” has 20 meanings listed here.
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.
- One's preference.
- An ugly woman.
- The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
- First, second, or third base.
- A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
- 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.
- An udder, especially the pendulous one of a dairy cow.
- The human female breast.
- 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.
- A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
- A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
- A large number or amount.
- In certain phrases: money.
- A fellow gay man.
- A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
- The scrotum.
Etymology
Inherited 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.
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