American English pronunciation

How to pronounce bags

IPA transcription: ['bæɡz]

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Noun

  • a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes

    “he carried his small bag onto the plane with him”

  • a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)

    “she reached into her bag and found a comb”

  • a flexible container with a single opening

    “he stuffed his laundry into a large bag”

  • a place that the runner must touch before scoring

    “he scrambled to get back to the bag”

  • the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person)

    “his bag included two deer”

  • the quantity that a bag will hold

    “he ate a large bag of popcorn”

  • 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”

  • an ugly or ill-tempered woman

    “he was romancing the old bag for her money”

  • mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)

Verb

  • capture or kill, as in hunting

    “bag a few pheasants”

  • hang loosely, like an empty bag

  • bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge

  • take unlawfully

  • 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.