bag
A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
Noun 4 meanings
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, handbags, backpacks, etc.
One's preference.
“Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music.”
The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
“The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.”
Verb 4 meanings
To put into a bag.
To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
“We bagged three deer yesterday.”
To furnish or load with a bag.
To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
“His trousers bag at the knees.”
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English bagge, from Old Norse baggi (“bag, pack, satchel, bundle”) (whence also Old French bague (“bundle, package, sack”)); related to Old Norse bǫggr (“harm, shame; load, burden”), of uncertain origin.
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BAG at a glance
BAG has 3 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (B 3 + A 1 + G 2) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,637 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with bag
All rhymes- HANDBAG14
- SCUMBAG14
- DOUCHEBAG18
- AIRBAG9
- DIRTBAG11
- SANDBAG11
- BEANBAG12
- MAILBAG12
- FLEABAG13
- SADDLEBAG14
- WINDBAG14
- SCHOOLBAG17
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