bag
/bæɡ/ noun A1- 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.
- 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.
- First, second, or third base. · He headed back to the bag.
- A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
- A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
Plural bags
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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It’s an extremely old carpet-bag.
Matthew, however, was spared the ordeal of speaking first, for as soon as she concluded that he was coming to her she stood up, grasping with one thin brown hand the handle of a shabby, old-fashioned carpet-bag; the other she held out to him.
Give me your bag.”
The man will carry your bags.
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