bag

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bag/baɡ/

▶noun

• 1 a flexible container with an opening at the top.

  ■ a piece of luggage.

• 2 (bags) loose folds of skin under a person's eyes.

• 3 (bags) Brit. dated loose-fitting trousers.

• 4 (bags of) informal, chiefly Brit. plenty of.

• 5 the amount of game shot by a hunter.

• 6 (usu. old bag) informal an unpleasant or disliked woman.

• 7 (one's bag) informal one's particular interest or taste.

• 8 Baseball a base.

▶verb (bags, bagging, bagged)

• 1 put in a bag.

• 2 succeed in killing or catching (an animal).

  ■ succeed in securing.

• 3 (of clothes) form loose bulges due to wear.

• 4 N. Amer. informal fit (a patient) with an oxygen mask.

• 5 Austral. informal criticize.

– phrases
bag and baggage with all one's belongings.
bag of tricks informal a set of ingenious plans, techniques, or resources.
bags (or bags I) Brit. informal a child's expression used to make a claim to something.
in the bag informal

• 1 (of something desirable) as good as secured.

• 2 US drunk.

– derivatives
bagful noun (pl. bagfuls),
bagger noun.

– origin ME: perh. from ON baggi.