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bags I Definition


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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.



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