American English pronunciation
How to pronounce bags
IPA transcription: ['bæɡz]
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Noun
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a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes
“he carried his small bag onto the plane with him”
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a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)
“she reached into her bag and found a comb”
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a flexible container with a single opening
“he stuffed his laundry into a large bag”
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a place that the runner must touch before scoring
“he scrambled to get back to the bag”
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the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person)
“his bag included two deer”
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the quantity that a bag will hold
“he ate a large bag of popcorn”
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an activity that you like or at which you are superior
“chemistry is not my cup of tea”
“his bag now is learning to play golf”
“marriage was scarcely his dish”
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an ugly or ill-tempered woman
“he was romancing the old bag for her money”
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mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)
Verb
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capture or kill, as in hunting
“bag a few pheasants”
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hang loosely, like an empty bag
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bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
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take unlawfully
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put into a bag
“The supermarket clerk bagged the groceries”
Usage examples
- Another, who was searching the boy's bags, found the piece of gold.
- A woman in a purple shirt carries three full shopping bags.
- A man sits on a bench with some bags.
- He took back his books and packed them away again in their bags.
- Empty bags cannot stand upright.
- In the United States, we use paper bags for shopping.
- The Multipack bags were in a different layout, being in Landscape style.
- As they packed their bags, the tsunami sirens sounded once more across the bleak shores.
- As they packed their bags, the tsunami sirens sounded once more across the bleak shores.
- He took back his books and packed them away again in their bags.