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bagger

[ bag-er ]

noun

  1. a person who packs groceries or other items into bags.
  2. a bag of cloth or plastic attached to a power lawn mower to collect grass as it is cut.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bagger1

1730–40, for earlier sense; bag + -er 1

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Example Sentences

Nearby Emory Pass is for peak baggers, and if you’re itching to put your four-wheel drive to work, try out tracks through the Caballo Mountains, just south of Caballo Lake State Park.

Some workers, including baggers and produce clerks, say they’ve been pulled into the distribution effort and told to monitor newly inoculated customers for side effects without proper training, protection or extra pay.

If the ring is thrown over one of the "base-hit" or "two-bagger" pegs, it shows the number of bases secured.

A self-important postmaster, especially of a little town, like the political carpet-bagger, has no respect for ancient landmarks.

The carpet bagger when not fighting the pestiferous vermin in the Chickahominy swamps was pilfering.

The old man saw the offensive carpet-bagger approaching the mansion and met him sternly with the interrogatory.

"Give me the paper and pencil, Mr. Wiggins, I will make the calculation for myself," said the carpet-bagger.

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