bag

Meaning

Noun

1. A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
2. 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.
3. (colloquial) One's preference.
4. (derogatory) An ugly woman.
5. The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
6. First, second, or third base.
7. A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
8. A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
9. A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
10. A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
11. (plural-normally) A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
12. (historical) A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
13. The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
14. (UK) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
15. (in-plural) A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
16. (informal) A large number or amount.
17. (countable, slang, uncountable) In certain phrases: money.
18. (US, derogatory, slang) A fellow gay man.
19. (slang) A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
20. (slang, vulgar) The scrotum.
21. (Cockney, slang) £1000, a grand.

Verb

1. (transitive) To put into a bag.
2. (informal, transitive) To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
3. (transitive) To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
4. (slang, transitive) To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
5. (slang, transitive) To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
6. (slang, transitive) To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
7. (transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.
8. (transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.
9. (transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.
10. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
11. To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
12. (intransitive) To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
13. (intransitive, obsolete) To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
14. To forget, ignore, or get rid of.
15. (slang) To laugh uncontrollably.
16. (Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.

Synonyms

sack

purse

👛

pouch

👝

pocket

handbag

👜

satchel

wallet

suitcase

briefcase

💼

case

pack

basket

🧺

pocketbook

bagful

knapsack

valise

hag

grip

sac

carrier bag

udder

travelling bag

shopping bag

dish

saccule

poke

cup of tea

net

box

📦

capture

old bag

envelope

✉️

base

traveling bag

bulge

trunk

swag

shoulder bag

snitch

sackful

steal

prey

packing

marsupium

packet

quiver

cod

kitbag

catch

duffle bag

Translations

sac

Tasche

bolsa

borsa

Sack

Beutel

saco

tas

bolso

👛

sacco

zak

saco

Tüte

torba

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbæɡ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: bagge

Cognate with Old French: bague

Cognate with Old Norse: bǫggr

Cognate with Welsh: baich

Cognate with Ancient Greek: βάσταγμα

In summary

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.

Sentences

" Why are you carrying money ?" asked the tribesman , when he had searched the boy's bag .