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bag

  [bag] noun, verb, bagged, bag⋅ging, interjection
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–noun
1. a container or receptacle of leather, plastic, cloth, paper, etc., capable of being closed at the mouth; pouch.
2. something resembling or suggesting such a receptacle.
3. a suitcase or other portable container for carrying articles, as in traveling.
4. a purse or moneybag.
5. the amount or quantity a bag can hold.
6. any of various measures of capacity.
7. a sac, as in an animal body.
8. an udder.
9. Slang. a small glassine or cellophane envelope containing a narcotic drug or a mixture of narcotics.
10. something hanging in a loose, pouchlike manner, as skin or cloth; a baggy part: He had bags under his eyes from lack of sleep.
11. Baseball. base 1 (def. 8b).
12. Hunting. the amount of game taken, esp. by one hunter in one hunting trip or over a specified period.
13. Slang.
a. a person's avocation, hobby, major interest, or obsession: Jazz isn't my bag.
b. a person's mood or frame of mind: The boss is in a mean bag today.
c. an environment, condition, or situation.
14. bags,
a. Informal. plenty; much; many (usually fol. by of): bags of time; bags of money.
b. Slang. trousers.
–verb (used without object)
15. to swell or bulge: A stiff breeze made the sails bag out.
16. to hang loosely like an empty bag: His socks bagged at the ankles.
17. to pack groceries or other items into a bag.
–verb (used with object)
18. to cause to swell or bulge; distend: The wind bagged the curtain.
19. to put into a bag.
20. Informal. to kill or catch, as in hunting: I bagged my first deer when I was a teenager.
21. Theater. clew (def. 9a).
–interjection
22. bags! British Slang. (used to lay first claim to something): Bags it! Bags, I go first!
—Idioms
23. Slang. to quit, abandon, or skip: I bagged my math class today. We'd better bag the deal. I was working too hard so I decided to bag it.
24. bag and baggage,
a. with all one's personal property: When they went to collect the rent, they found he had left, bag and baggage.
b. completely, totally: The equipment had disappeared, bag and baggage, without even the slightest trace.
25. bag of bones, an emaciated person or animal.
26. bag of tricks, a supply of expedient resources; stratagems: Maybe they will finally be honest with us, once they've run through their bag of tricks.
27. hold the bag, Informal. to be forced to bear the entire blame, responsibility, or loss that was to have been shared: His accomplices flew to South America on news of the theft and left him holding the bag.
28. in the bag, Informal. virtually certain; assured; definite: Her promotion is in the bag. The sale of the house is in the bag.
29. old bag, Slang. an unattractive, often slatternly woman: a gossipy old bag.
Origin:
1200–50; 1920–25 for def. 28; ME bagge < ON baggi pack, bundle

Related forms:
baglike, adjective

Regional variation note:
1. Although bag and sack are both used everywhere throughout the U.S., the more commonly used word in the North Midland U.S. is bag and in the South Midland is sack.
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Slang Dictionary
bag (so)

  1. tv.
    to put someone on a respirator. (To apply a medical device, part of which is a rubber bag, used to help someone breathe.) : Bag this guy quick. He is struggling to get his breath.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

bag 
c.1230, bagge, from O.N. baggi or a similar Scand. source, perhaps ultimately of Celtic origin. Disparaging slang for "woman" dates from 1924. Meaning "person's area of interest or expertise" is 1964, from Black Eng. slang, from jazz sense of "category," probably via notion of putting something in a bag. Baggy "puffed out, hanging loosely" is 1834. Many fig. senses are from the notion of the game bag (1486) into which the product of the hunt was placed; e.g. the verb meaning "to kill game" (1814) and its colloquial extension to "catch, seize, steal" (1818).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: bag
Pronunciation: 'bag
Function: noun
: a pouched or pendulous bodily part or organ: as a : UDDER b : a pendulous outpouching of flabby skin bags below the eyes>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

bag (bāg)
n.

  1. An anatomical sac or pouch, such as the udder of a cow.

  2. A container of flexible material, such as paper, plastic, or leather, that is used for carrying or storing items.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Idioms & Phrases

bag of tricks

One's stock of resources and stratagems, as in Mom can fix anythingyou never know what she will pull out of her bag of tricks. Alluding to the magician's bag of equipment for performing magic tricks, this term was first recorded in 1694, when Jean de La Fontaine, in one of his fables, has a fox carry a sac des ruses ("bag of tricks").

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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