bag

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/ˈbæɡ/

noun 5verb 5

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

strong | heavy | canvas, leather, paper, plastic, polythene, string | carrier, shopping | bin, dustbin, rubbish

clutch, shoulder

I carried my laptop in a leather shoulder bag as I walked to the office.

drawstring, duffel | evening | overnight, weekend, travel/travelling | sponge, toilet, wash

changing

She packed her changing bag before heading to the hospital to meet her newborn daughter.

body

The security guard wore a body bag across his chest to carry important documents.

sick | doggie | goody | sleeping | pannier, saddle, saddlebag

money

The company's decision makers held the money bags and refused to fund the new project.

diplomatic | mail, mailbag | post, postbag

VERB + BAG

open, unfasten, unzip | close, zip up | pack | empty, unpack

seal sth in

The baker sealed fresh bread in a plastic bag before putting it on the shelf.

cram/push sth in/into, put sth in/into, shove sth in/into, slip sth in/into, stuff/thrust sth in/into

She crammed her wet swimsuit into the beach bag before leaving the pool.

draw sth out of, produce sth from, pull/take sth from/out of

delve in/into, dive into, ferret (around) in, fumble in, reach into, rummage in, scrabble in

She fumbled in her bag to find her keys before the door locked behind her.

clutch, hold

carry, drag, haul, lug

She dragged her shopping bag across the kitchen floor to unpack the groceries.

heave, lift

shoulder

She shouldered her heavy bag before walking down the crowded street to catch the bus.

drop, dump, put down

deposit, drop off, leave

I left my bag at the airport yesterday, but they found it for me.

grab, snatch

He snatched my bag at the train station and disappeared into the crowd.

swing

The little girl swung her beach bag as she skipped down the boardwalk.

look in, search

gather

The children gathered their bags quickly when the school bell rang at 3 p.m.

BAG + VERB

bulge (with sth)

Her shopping bag bulged with fresh groceries as she walked home from the market.

contain sth, hold sth | be crammed with sth, be (stuffed) full of sth

PREP

in a/the ~, inside a/the ~

~ of

She bought a bag of flour at the market yesterday morning.

PHRASES

the contents of a bag

She found her keys after searching through the contents of her bag for ten minutes.

sling your bag over your shoulder

He slung his bag over his shoulder before heading out to the market.

Definitions

noun

A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.

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

One's preference.

Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music.

And from then on, his bag was silence. Silence and killing.

An ugly woman.

The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.

The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.

verb

To put into a bag.

To take with oneself, to assume into one's score

We bagged three deer yesterday.

He was a fine specimen, very large and with a beautiful coat, and I wish I had had the luck to bag him.

To take with oneself, to assume into one's score

the two opposition groups have bagged almost 300 of the 500 seats contested in the election.

To take with oneself, to assume into one's score

"I am sure nobody would mind," said Susan. "It isn't as if we wanted to take them out of the house; we shan't take them even out of the wardrobe." "I never thought of that, Su," said Peter. "Of course, now you put it that way, I see. No one could say you had bagged a coat as long as you leave it in the wardrobe where you found it. And I suppose this whole country is in the wardrobe."

To take with oneself, to assume into one's score

When we hit the club to go and hell-raise / Probably end up baggin' the cocktail waitress

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — an activity that you like or at which you are superior

dish

noun — mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)

udder

noun — a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes

noun — a container used for carrying money and small personal items

noun — a place that the runner must touch before scoring

base

noun — the quantity that a bag will hold

bagful

verb — take unlawfully

pocket

verb — bulge out

bulge

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

let the cat out of the bag

To disclose a secret; to let a secret be known, often inadvertently.

It was going to be a surprise party until someone let the cat out of the bag.

bag of bones

A skinny, malnourished person or animal.

Bradly came out from hiding with a dyspeptic grunt, too depressed by ignominy to send a curse after the old woman. That old bag of bones to bring down cataclysm on him! That old th

mixed bag

Any bag containing a mixture of something.

a mixed bag of nuts

squint like a bag of nails

To squint very much, as though one's eyes were directed as many ways as the points of a bag of nails.

Does she squint like a bag of nails? Is she hideous? They always are!' The Earl stood back.'You may judge for yourself,' he said dryly. 'Miss Taverner, little though he may have re

way out of a paper bag

A minimal level of competence or effectiveness, as used in phrases where one is unable to perform.

My boss is so clueless, he couldn't schedule his own way out of a paper bag.

Example Bank

Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music.

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And from then on, his bag was silence. Silence and killing.

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They knew it and sometimes used it as a way to get her to glox on, which was not her usual bag.

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We bagged three deer yesterday.

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He was a fine specimen, very large and with a beautiful coat, and I wish I had had the luck to bag him.

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"As a matter of fact my thoughts were flashing between Ronda and that man-eating tiger I'm going to bag tomorrow."

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, bag is marked as derogatory, informal, slang, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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