bag

[Bag]

A bag is a lightweight, flexible container meant for carrying things. A grocery bag is one you bring home from the supermarket full of food.

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A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.

Noun
an activity that you like or at which you are superior; "chemistry is not my cup of tea"; "his bag now is learning to play golf"; "marriage was scarcely his dish"

Noun
mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)

Noun
a flexible container with a single opening; "he stuffed his laundry into a large bag"

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a portable rectangular traveling bag for carrying clothes; "he carried his small bag onto the plane with him"

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a bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women); "she reached into her bag and found a comb"

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Noun
place that runner must touch before scoring; "he scrambled to get back to the bag"

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an ugly or ill-tempered woman; "he was romancing the old bag for her money"

Noun
the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person); "his bag included two deer"

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the quantity that a bag will hold; "he ate a large bag of popcorn"

Verb
capture or kill, as in hunting; "bag a few pheasants"

Verb
put into a bag; "The supermarket clerk bagged the groceries"

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take unlawfully

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bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge

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hang loosely, like an empty bag


n.
A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.

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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.

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A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.

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The quantity of game bagged.

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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.

v. t.
To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.

v. t.
To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game.

v. t.
To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.

v. i.
To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.

v. i.
To swell with arrogance.

v. i.
To become pregnant.


Bag

Bag , n. [OE. bagge; cf. Icel. baggi, and also OF. bague, bundle, LL. baga.] 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. Bag and baggage, all that belongs to one. -- To give one the bag, to disappoint him. [Obs.] Bunyan.

Bag

Bag, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bagged(); p. pr. & vb. n. Bagging] 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.

Bag

Bag, v. i. 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. ).

A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.

To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.

To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.

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Usage Examples

My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character - I am that character... It's a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I've put them all to work onstage.

I think Nina Simone has had an amazing journey. She was spicy and she had attitude and she didn't care, she wanted her money in a paper bag and don't mess with me and I've been doing some research on that so.

I love street style, seeing how girls wear pieces and how their pair accessories with their outfit. How they pair shoes with a bag and go to day to night and change things up.

I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.

Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and a huge bag of good stuff for the Pentagon. But pretty quickly conservatives discovered that deficits, when done correctly, did something really cool: deficits defunded the Left.

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

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Other Usage Examples

My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.

I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

I want my handbags and my shoes to be stylish but I want to make sure that they're versatile. I travel and I have to make sure the pieces I put into my bag can go with a dress or with shorts or jeans.

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.

I love actors, both my parents were actors, and the work with actors is the most enjoyable part of making a film. It's important that they feel protected and are confident they won't be betrayed. When you create that atmosphere of trust, it's in the bag - the actors will do everything to satisfy you.

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

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