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bag and baggage

bag and baggage noun: all one's possessions.

Noun

bag and baggage (uncountable)

  1. (UK) All one's possessions.
    • Hudson personally would not face the music at that meeting and the business could hardly proceed for groans and hisses and cries of "Hudson! Hudson! Why is Hudson not here?" and so the ungrateful shareholders to whom Hudson had generously paid dividends out of their own capital cast out Hudson bag...1941 December, Kenneth Brown, “The Newmarket & Chesterford Railway—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 533
    • They did not wait the two months granted, but made a quick decision and picked up bag and baggage, and after leaving four Fathers to care for the Catholics, left on carts and on foot for Antwerp.1989, John P. Murphy (annotator and editor), Jesuit Latin Poets of the 17th and 18th Centuries, page 85

Adverb

bag and baggage (not comparable)

  1. (UK) With all one's possessions.
    • I could go from valley to valley and from hill to hill; I could “bring up” when it was necessary; and when my labours were finished in one place, I could go on, bag and baggage, to another.1857, Robert Fortune, A Residence Among the Chinese, Digital Print, published 2012, page 94
    • The summer camp was being dismantled, and the tribe, bag and baggage, was preparing to go off to the fall hunting.1906 May–October, Jack London, chapter IV, in White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 3 (The Gods of the Wild)

bag and baggage meaning in Tamil, Kannada and Assamese

bag and baggage in Tamil

மூட்டை முடிச்சுகள்

bag and baggage in Kannada

ಗಂಟುಮೂಟೆ, ಸಾಮಾನು ಸರಂಜಾಮು

bag and baggage in Assamese

bag and baggage
টালিটোপোলা talitüpüla, টোপোলাটাপলি tüpülatapoli

Questions about bag and baggage

What does bag and baggage mean?
Bag and baggage means all one's possessions.
What is bag and baggage in Tamil?
Bag and baggage in Tamil is மூட்டை முடிச்சுகள். See Bag and baggage meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bag and baggage?
Bag and baggage can be a noun or an adverb.

Words near bag and baggage in the dictionary

  1. baftas
  2. bafts
  3. Bafumbira
  4. Bafut
  5. bag
  6. bag and baggage
  7. bag and band
  8. bag and tag
  9. bag around one's eye
  10. bag around the eye
  11. bag barrow

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bag and baggage (page history and authors); bag and baggage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bag and baggage (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); টালিটোপোলা (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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