Bag

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bæɡ/
• North American also IPA: /beɪɡ/, IPA: /bɛɡ/
• Rhymes: -æɡ

Origin

From Middle English bagge, from Old Norse baggi ("bag, pack, satchel, bundle"), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰak- (compare Welsh baich ("load, bundle"), Ancient Greek βάσταγμα (bástagma, "load").

Full definition of bag

Noun

1. A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.
2. (informal) A handbag
3. A suitcase.
4. A schoolbag, especially a backpack.
5. One’s preference.Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music.
6. (derogatory) An ugly woman.
7. (baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.''The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.
8. (baseball) First, second, or third base.He headed back to the bag.
9. (preceded by "the") A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
10. (mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.If one has a bag of three apples and the letter 'a' is taken to denote 'apple', then such bag could be represented symbolically as {a,a,a}. Note that in an ordinary context, when talking about a bag of apples, one does not care about identifying the individual apples, although one might be interested in distinguishing apples by species, for example, 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}.
11. A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpentsthe bag of a cow
12. A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.
13. The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
14. (slang, vulgar) A scrotum.

Synonyms

• (flexible container) poke obsolete, sack, tote
• (in mathematics) multiset

Hyponyms

• (flexible container) bindle

Verb

1. To put into a bag.
2. To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.We bagged three deer yesterday.
3. To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
4. (transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.
• Drydena bee bagged with his honeyed venom
5. (slang, African American Vernacular) To bring a woman one met on the street with one.
6. (slang, African American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
7. (Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.
8. (medicine) To provide artificial ventilation with a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
9. (obsolete, intransitive) To swell or hang down like a full bag.The skin bags from containing morbid matter.
10. (obsolete, intransitive) To swell with arrogance.
11. (obsolete, intransitive) To become pregnant.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Korean: ë°± (baek)

Anagrams

• AGB
• BGA
• gab
• GBA