bag

Where “bag” sits in English frequency

Definition

1. 1
   A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
2. 2
   A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, briefcases, handbags, backpacks, etc.
3. 3
   One's preference.
4. 4
   An ugly woman.
5. 5
   The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
6. 6
   First, second, or third base.
7. 7
   A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
8. 8
   A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
9. 9
   A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
10. 10
    A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
11. 11
    A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
12. 12
    A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
13. 13
    The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
14. 14
    A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
15. 15
    A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
16. 16
    A large number or amount.
17. 17
    In certain phrases: money.
18. 18
    A fellow gay man.
19. 19
    A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
20. 20
    The scrotum.
21. 21
    £1000, a grand.

Etymology

Etymology tree Old Norse baggibor.? Old French baguebor.? Middle English bagge English bag Inherited from Middle English bagge, from Old Norse baggi (“bag, pack, satchel, bundle”) (whence also Old French bague (“bundle, package, sack”)); related to Old Norse bǫggr (“harm, shame; load, burden”), of uncertain origin.

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