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Bag

noun

1.

A flexible container with a single opening.

2.

The quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person).

3.

A place that the runner must touch before scoring. Synonym: base.

4.

A container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women). Synonyms: handbag, pocketbook, purse.

5.

The quantity that a bag will hold. Synonym: bagful.

6.

A portable rectangular container for carrying clothes. Synonyms: grip, suitcase, traveling bag, travelling bag.

7.

An ugly or ill-tempered woman. Synonym: old bag.

8.

Mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats). Synonym: udder.

9.

An activity that you like or at which you are superior. Synonyms: cup of tea, dish. "His bag now is learning to play golf" , "Marriage was scarcely his dish"

verb

(past & past part. bagged; pres. part. bagging)

1.

Capture or kill, as in hunting.

2.

Hang loosely, like an empty bag.

3.

Bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge. Synonym: bulge.

4.

Take unlawfully. Synonym: pocket.

5.

Put into a bag.

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... the bag, Johnny, about everybody. They were all beforehand with you: papa, Lord Summerhays, Bentley and all. Dont you let ...

— Misalliance • George Bernard Shaw

... throat, in the vain attempt to reason them out of it. I had got Tom pinned up in a corner, whence, I told him, he should not escape till he had done his appointed task. Meantime, Fanny had possessed herself of my work-bag, and was rifling its contents—and spitting into it besides. I told her to let it alone, but to no purpose, of course. 'Burn it, Fanny!' cried Tom: and THIS command she hastened to obey. I sprang to snatch it from ...

— Agnes Grey • Anne Bronte

... you properly into a nice little fever and inflammation. Why, what a hand you have! And your pulse! Here, lie down at once,' as he formed a couch with the help of a wrapper and bag. Arthur passively accepted his care; but as the chill again crept through his veins, he stretched out his ...

— Heartsease - or Brother's Wife • Charlotte M. Yonge

... can't? 'Can't' is a 'bad word,' you know." She got up—a big, heavy woman, in a gray bag of a dress that only reached to the top of her boots—and stood with her hands on her hips; her gray hair was twisted into a small, tight knot at the back of her head, and her face looked like iron that had once been molten and had cooled into roughened immobility. It was not an unamiable face; ...

— The Iron Woman • Margaret Deland

... thin hand at the neck of her dress. She drew from it a chain with a silk bag attached. Out of the bag she took first a ...

— Robin • Frances Hodgson Burnett

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