bag Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a flexible container with a single opening
    • he stuffed his laundry into a large bag
  2. noun the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person)
    • his bag included two deer
  3. noun a place that the runner must touch before scoring
    base.
    • he scrambled to get back to the bag
  4. noun a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)
    handbag; purse; pocketbook.
    • she reached into her bag and found a comb
  5. noun the quantity that a bag will hold
    bagful.
    • he ate a large bag of popcorn
  6. noun a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes
    grip; traveling bag; travelling bag; suitcase.
    • he carried his small bag onto the plane with him
  7. noun an ugly or ill-tempered woman
    old bag.
    • he was romancing the old bag for her money
  8. noun mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)
    udder.
  9. noun an activity that you like or at which you are superior
    dish; cup of tea.
    • chemistry is not my cup of tea
    • his bag now is learning to play golf
    • marriage was scarcely his dish
  10. verb capture or kill, as in hunting
    • bag a few pheasants
  11. verb hang loosely, like an empty bag
  12. verb bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
    bulge.
  13. verb take unlawfully
    pocket.
  14. verb put into a bag
    • The supermarket clerk bagged the groceries

WordNet

Bag noun
Etymology
OE. bagge; cf. Icel. baggi, and also OF. bague, bundle, LL. baga.
Definitions
  1. A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.
  2. A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow.
  3. A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament. Obs.
  4. The quantity of game bagged.
  5. (Com.) A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee. Bunyan.
Bag transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Bagged(); present participle & verbal noun Bagging
Definitions
  1. To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.
  2. To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game.
  3. To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.
    A bee bagged with his honeyed venom. Dryden.
Bag intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.
  2. To swell with arrogance. Obs. Chaucer.
  3. To become pregnant. Obs. Warner. (Alb. Eng. ).

Webster 1913