bag

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.

(colloquial) One's preference.

(derogatory) An ugly woman.

(baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.

(baseball) First, second, or third base.

(slang) (countable, uncountable) In certain phrases: money.

(slang) A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.

(slang) (vulgar) The scrotum.

(usually in the plural) The human female breast.

(UK) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.

(chiefly in the plural) A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.

(informal) A large number or amount.

(preceded by the) A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.

(mathematics) 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 quantity of game bagged in a hunt.

(slang) (US, gay slang, derogatory) A fellow gay man.

(slang) (Cockney rhyming slang) £1000, a grand.

(now historical) A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.

verb

(transitive) To put into a bag.

(informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.

To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.

(slang) To steal.

(transitive, medicine) To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.

(transitive, medicine) To fit with a bag to collect urine.

(transitive) To take with oneself, to assume into one's score

(transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.

To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag

To hang like an empty bag.

(nautical, intransitive) To drop away from the correct course.

To forget, ignore, or get rid of.

(slang, African-American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.

(Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.

(slang, African-American Vernacular) To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.

(slang) To arrest.

(obsolete, ambitransitive) To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.

(obsolete, intransitive) To become pregnant.

Synonyms for bag

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