bagging Definition

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.