bag

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a flexible container with a single opening

   I stuffed my laundry into a large bag.

2. 2
   noun

   a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes

   I carried my small bag onto the plane with me.

3. 3
   noun

   a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories

   I reached into my bag and found a comb.

4. 4
   noun

   a place that the runner must touch before scoring

   The runner scrambled to get back to the bag.

5. 5
   noun

   an ugly or ill-tempered woman

   You were romancing the old bag for money.

6. 6
   noun

   the quantity of game taken in a particular period, usually by one person

   Their bag included two deer.

7. 7
   noun

   a container typically constructed with a flexible material, often open on top

   I was half in the bag when the sack race started, I finished last.

8. 8
   verb

   to capture or kill, as in hunting

   I bagged a few pheasants on our hunting trip.

Etymology

Etymology tree Old Norse baggibor.? Old French baguebor.? Middle English bagge English bag 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.