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bags

nounverbverbinterjectioncommon in dialogue

  • //bæɡz//
  • //bæːɡz//

A large quantity.

noun

  1. 1

    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. 2

    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.

  3. 3

    slangTrousers.

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

  4. 4

    slangA woman's breasts.

  5. 5

    Also a form of bagplural of bag

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of bagthird-person singular simple present indicative of bag

verb

  1. 1

    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.

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

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

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

Etymology

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

interjection

  1. 1

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

    Bags I sit in the front seat!

Forms

past tense
bagsed
past participle
bagsed
present participle
bagsing
third person singular
bagses
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).