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bags

/bæɡz/

bags noun: a large quantity. Also the plural of bag.

Noun (1)

bags

  1. (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.
  2. (chiefly Chicago) A game similar to beanbag toss, cornhole.
    • 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.2019 July 28, Devin Willems, “Is it ‘Bags’ or ‘Cornhole’? Official governing body tries to settle the debate”, in WFRV
  3. (slang) Trousers.
    • ‘Emerson, you beast, you've got on my bags.’1908, EM Forster, A Room With A View, Penguin, published 2018, page 123
  4. (slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.

Verb

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

  1. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK) To reserve for oneself.
    • 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.2006, Jill Golden, Inventing Beatrice, page 81
    • Mum bagsed being the priestess who got to dangle Stone over the volcano by his ankles.2007, Debra Oswald., Getting Air, page 66
    Synonyms:
    have dibs on, bagsy

Interjection

  1. Used to claim something for oneself, especially in the combination 'Bags I'.
    • Bags I sit in the front seat!

Noun (2) capitalized: BAGS

BAGS (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of beauty, age, goodness, size (“those categories of adjective that occur before the noun in French”).

Also used as

bags is also the plural of bag.

bags is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of bag.

bags meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

bags in Hindi

थैले, थैलियाँ

bags in Tamil

பைகள்

bags in Marathi

पिशव्या, पिशव्यांना

bags in Urdu

تھیلے, بیگز
More languagesFewer languages
bags in Bengali
ব্যাগগুলি, ব্যাগগুলো
bags in Telugu
సంచులు, బ్యాగ్స్
bags in Malayalam
ബാഗുകൾ, സഞ്ചികൾ
bags in Kannada
ಚೀಲಗಳು, ಬ್ಯಾಗ್ಗಳು
bags in Punjabi
ਥੈਲੇ
bags in Gujarati
થેલીઓ, કોથળીઓ
bags in Odia
ବ୍ଯ଼ାଗଗୁଡ଼ିକ, ବ୍ଯ଼ାଗ୍ଗୁଡ଼ିକ
bags in Nepali
झोलाहरू, ब्यागहरू

Examples of bags in a sentence

  • Battered armchairs and a sofa were bagsed first; they were more comfortable than the school chairs that could get hard.2008, Kate Dellar-Evans, Best of Friends: The First Thirty Years of the Friendly Street Poets, page 13:
  • ‘Hey, it′s my turn in the front,’ Kalista called as she realised her brother had bagsed the front seat.2009, J. Lodge, Black Mail, page 316:
  • 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.2016, Laurence Fearnley, The Quiet Spectacular, →ISBN, page 214:

Synonyms of bags

Antonyms

Forms of bags

third-person singular presentbagses
present participlebagsing
past participlebagsed
pastbagsed
alternative formbaggs

Origin of bags

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

Words formed from bags

Phrases with bags

188 more phrasesFewer phrases

Words that rhyme with bags

2 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about bags

What does bags mean?
Bags means a large quantity.
What is bags in Hindi?
Bags in Hindi is थैले, थैलियाँ. See Bags meaning in Hindi.
How do you use bags in a sentence?
Battered armchairs and a sofa were bagsed first; they were more comfortable than the school chairs that could get hard.
What part of speech is bags?
Bags can be a noun, a verb or an interjection.
How do you pronounce bags?
Bags is pronounced /bæɡz/.

Words near bags in the dictionary

  1. Bagrian
  2. bagrid
  3. bagrids
  4. bagroom
  5. bagrooms
  6. bags
  7. bags and tags
  8. bags around one's eyes
  9. bags around the eyes
  10. bags below one's eyes
  11. bags below the eyes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bags (page history and authors); BAGS (page history and authors); bags (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bags (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bags (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bags (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bags (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bags (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bags (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bags (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bags (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bags (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bags (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bags (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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