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Bag

noun

1.

A flexible container with a single opening.

2.

The quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person).

3.

A place that the runner must touch before scoring. Synonym: base.

4.

A container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women). Synonyms: handbag, pocketbook, purse.

5.

The quantity that a bag will hold. Synonym: bagful.

6.

A portable rectangular container for carrying clothes. Synonyms: grip, suitcase, traveling bag, travelling bag.

7.

An ugly or ill-tempered woman. Synonym: old bag.

8.

Mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats). Synonym: udder.

9.

An activity that you like or at which you are superior. Synonyms: cup of tea, dish. "His bag now is learning to play golf" , "Marriage was scarcely his dish"

verb

(past & past part. bagged; pres. part. bagging)

1.

Capture or kill, as in hunting.

2.

Hang loosely, like an empty bag.

3.

Bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge. Synonym: bulge.

4.

Take unlawfully. Synonym: pocket.

5.

Put into a bag.

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"Bag" Quotes from Famous Books

... Ragan, shall have cheer. I have no time to tell what delicates here be, But (think this to be true) they're fit for better men than me. And what? shall Esau hereof have any part? Nay, I trust to convey it by such pretty art That, till the bag be clear, he shall it never see. I shall, and if he faint, feed him as he fed me: I shall requite his shutting me out of the door That, if he bid me run to get him meat afore, I shall run as fast as my feet ...

— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. II • Robert Dodsley

... introduced me to Mr. Ticknor, who I fancied had not read my poem; but he seemed to know what it was from the junior partner, and he asked me whether I had been paid for it. I confessed that I had not, and then he got out a chamois-leather bag, and took from it five half-eagles in gold and laid them on the green cloth top of the desk, in much the shape and of much the size of the Great Bear. I have never since felt myself paid so lavishly for any literary work, though I have had more for a single piece than the twenty-five dollars ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... would go out and spread 40 cents around among the tradesmen for a mess of water-lilies and a bag of peanut brittle. ...

— Get Next! • Hugh McHugh

... ship, which the king wanted, was read. When he came home amid told his family, Peter, the eldest, asked his mother to get some food ready for him, for now he was going away to try if he could build the ship and win the princess and half the kingdom. When the bag was ready lie set out. On the way he met an old man who was very ...

— The Junior Classics, Volume 1 • Willam Patten

... travelling was none too safe, and the transit of the heavy bag of golden guineas made an additional source of danger. For there were highway robbers and footpads, who seemed to have a seventh sense for the scenting of gold. It was probable that they had spies and confederates in all sorts of places, and that they were warned ...

— Tom Tufton's Travels • Evelyn Everett-Green

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