Word.ws English Dictionary

debagging

debagging is the present participle and gerund of debag.

Meaning of debag

Verb

debag (third-person singular simple present debags, present participle debagging, simple past and past participle debagged)

  1. (transitive) To remove (something) from a bag.
    • […] when such bags are used for organic materials destined to be composted, the plastics create nothing but problems. Materials must be debagged before composting […]2000, Sara Hulse, Plastics Product Recycling, page 35
  2. (slang, transitive) To pull down the trousers of a person quickly by surprise, as a prank.
    • I don’t want to be debagged! Don’t you play the giddy ox with me!1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    pants, dekeck
  3. To perform blepharoplasty; to remove eyebags.

Noun

debagging (plural debaggings)

  1. (Southern-England, dated, slang) An act of pulling down the trousers of a person quickly and without consent.
    • When we catch up with you, Jones, we're going to give you a debagging!
    Synonyms:
    pantsing, dekecking

Synonyms of debagging

Forms of debagging

pluraldebaggings

Words that rhyme with debagging

Questions about debagging

What does debagging mean?
Debagging means an act of pulling down the trousers of a person quickly and without consent.
What is debagging the present participle and gerund of?
Debagging is the present participle and gerund of debag.
What part of speech is debagging?
Debagging is a noun.
What is the plural of debagging?
The plural of debagging is debaggings.

Words near debagging in the dictionary

  1. debag
  2. Debagarh
  3. debagged
  4. debagger
  5. debaggers
  6. debagging
  7. debaggings
  8. debags
  9. Debal
  10. debalancer
  11. debalancers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: debagging (page history and authors); debag (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “debagging.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/debagging. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.