bag Definition

bag¹
noun

1. A container made of a soft material with an opening at the top, for carrying things.

Thesaurus: purse, pocketbook, pouch, sack, satchel, knapsack, rucksack, saddlebag, suitcase, briefcase, valise, haversack.
2. A bagful.
3. An amount of fish or game caught.
4. colloq
A large amount of something.
Form: bags
Form: bags of something (especially)
5. offensive, colloq
A woman, especially an unpleasant or ugly one.
6. Loose wide-legged trousers.

Form: bags
7. slang
A quantity of drugs, especially heroin, in a paper or other container.

Idiom: bag and baggage

Completely.
Example: clear out bag and baggage

Idiom: in the bag

colloq
As good as secured or done.
Thesaurus: certain, absolute, sure, definite, sewed up.

Etymology: 13c.

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bag²
verb bagged, bagging

tr & intr
1. To put something into a bag.

Form: bag something up (also)
2. To kill (game).

Example: bagged six pheasants
3. colloq
To obtain or reserve (a seat, etc).
Thesaurus: catch, trap, seize, capture, nab, commandeer, appropriate, acquire.
tr & intr
4. Said especially of clothes: to hang loosely or bulge.

Idiom: bags I (bags, bagsy)

children's slang
I want to do or have, etc (the thing specified); I lay claim to it.
Example: Bags I sit in the front

Etymology: 15c: in the nautical sense (of a sail) ‘to swell out or bulge': from bag¹.