bags

See also: BAGS

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: băgz, IPA^(key): /bæɡz/, (bad-lad split) /bæːɡz/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -æɡz, -æːɡz

Etymology 1

Noun

bags

1. plural of bag
2. (often in the phrase 'bags of') A large quantity.

   No need to rush: there's bags of time.

   Please take as many coat hangers as you like. I've got bags.

3. (chiefly Chicago) A game similar to beanbag toss, cornhole.
   • 2019 July 28, Devin Willems, “Is it ‘Bags’ or ‘Cornhole’? Official governing body tries to settle the debate”, in WFRV‎^[1]:

     It may have many names, but depending on where you reside it only has one. ‘Cornhole’ or ‘Bags’ has been in the middle of discussions when it comes to what the popular bag toss game is called.

4. (slang) Trousers.
   • 1908, EM Forster, A Room With A View, Penguin, published 2018, page 123:

     ‘Emerson, you beast, you've got on my bags.’

5. (slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.

Derived terms

• eyebags
• funbags
• spongebags

 

Verb

bags

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bag

Etymology 2

Grammatical extension of third-person singular form of bag (“make first claim on something”).

Alternative forms

• baggs

Verb

bags (third-person singular simple present bagses, present participle bagsing, simple past and past participle bagsed)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, UK) To reserve for oneself.
   • 2006, Jill Golden, Inventing Beatrice, page 81:

     So you were thrilled, and we picked out the mare for Harriet, and you bagsed the black, and I had the chestnut, and we all rode away one day.

   • 2007, Debra Oswald., Getting Air, page 66:

     Mum bagsed being the priestess who got to dangle Stone over the volcano by his ankles.

   • 2008, Kate Dellar-Evans, Best of Friends: The First Thirty Years of the Friendly Street Poets, page 13:

     Battered armchairs and a sofa were bagsed first; they were more comfortable than the school chairs that could get hard.

   • 2009, J. Lodge, Black Mail, page 316:

     ‘Hey, it′s my turn in the front,’ Kalista called as she realised her brother had bagsed the front seat.

   • 2016, Laurence Fearnley, The Quiet Spectacular, →ISBN, page 214:

     They used to share the water as kids, and for some reason Irene always managed to bags the first bath; Riva made do with the soapy second.

Synonyms

• (US) have dibs on
• bagsy

Antonyms

• (dated) fains

Interjection

bags

1. Used to claim something for oneself, especially in the combination 'Bags I'.

   Bags I sit in the front seat!

Anagrams

• Gabs, BGAs, gabs, GABs, ABGs, GBAS, GBAs

Danish

Noun

bags c

1. indefinite genitive singular of bag

Swedish

Noun

bags

1. indefinite genitive singular of bag