Baggage

Definition: Baggage

Baggage

Noun

1. A case used to carry belongings when traveling.

2. A worthless or immoral woman.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "baggage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Baggage \Bag"gage\, noun. [French expression bagage, from Old French bague bungle. In senses and compare to French bagasse prostitute. See Bag, noun.]. (references)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Baggage

Libertine

Adulteress, advoutress, courtesan, prostitute, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie; woman, woman of the town; streetwalker, Cyprian, miss, piece; frail sisterhood; demirep, wench, trollop, trull, baggage, hussy, drab, bitch, jade, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, minx, harridan; unfortunate, unfortunate female, unfortunate woman; woman of easy virtue; (unchaste); wanton, fornicatress; Jezebel, Messalina, Delilah, Thais, Phryne, Aspasia, Lais, lorette, cocotte, petite dame, grisette; demimonde; chippy; sapphist; spiritual wife; white slave.

Materials

Materials; supplies, munition, fuel, grist, household stuff pabulum; (food); ammunition; (arms); contingents; relay, reinforcement, reenforcement; baggage; (personal property); means; calico, cambric, cashmere.

Property

Impedimenta; luggage, baggage; bag and baggage; pelf; cargo, lading.

Vehicle

Train; accommodation train, passenger train, express trail, special train, corridor train, parliamentary train, luggage train, freight train, goods train; st class train, nd class train, rd class train, st class carriage, nd class carriage, rd class carriage, st class compartment, nd class compartment, rd class compartment; rolling stock; horse box, cattle truck; baggage car, express car, freight car, parlor car, dining car, Pullman car, sleeping car, sleeper, dome car; surface car, tram car, trolley car; box car, box wagon; horse car; bullet train, shinkansen, cannonball, the Wabash cannonball, lightning express; luggage van; mail, mail car, mail van.

Crosswords: Baggage

Baggage handlers (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

Management just walked away from the table; the baggage handlers, pilots and flight attendants are all getting set to walk out in forty-eight hours (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

I wish I'd checked you with the baggage. (Berth Marks; writing credit: Leo McCarey; H.M. Walker)

Take me to the hotel, Baggage gone, oh, well (TRAVELIN' BAND; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival)

You don't need no baggage, you just get on board ("People Get Ready"; performing artist: The Impressions)

Gag and Baggage (1952)

Baggage Buster (1941)

Smash Your Baggage (1933)

Excess Baggage (1933)

Fancy Baggage (1929)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Airport Baggage Handling Equipment in Canada: A Strategic Entry Report, 2000 (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Airport Baggage Handling Equipment in Canada: A Strategic Entry Report, 2000 [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

• Baggage (reference)

• Circus Baggage Stock: A Tribute to the Percheron Horse (reference)

• Dykes With Baggage (reference)

• Excess Baggage [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Excess Baggage (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Excess Baggage (1997 Film) [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• Perpetual Baggage Claim (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Wanted! Loving family with cozy corral. Clean environment requested. Will relocate. Capable of carring own baggage long distances. Good listener. Meet me, or my brother, at the next wild horse and burro adoption. Credit: Unknown.

Attacking a baggage train. Credit: Library of Congress.

I lose-a my baggage, I shouted loudly. You savvy? baggage heap gone! coach vamoose, get me?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Italian front: some of the personal baggage. Credit: Library of Congress.

Union Station, Washington, D.C.: Electric baggage truck operated by baggage porter. Credit: Library of Congress.

Our baggage is coming on ahead. Credit: Library of Congress.

Loading baggage of train passenger into automobile. Montrose, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress.

Women airport workers. In airports as well as airplane factories, women are now contributing to the nation's manpower needs. Here at Washington National Airport, Mattie Marks scoots from plane to baggage room in her "gas buggy," transporting passengers' s. Credit: Library of Congress.

Roanoke station of the Virginia & Western Railroad, Roanoke, Virginia. Baggage I. Credit: Library of Congress.

The "Patrician," the largest passenger plane yet to be produced, piloted by Capt. St. Claire Street, army flier, who brought it from Bristol, Penn.. to Washington, with twenty passengers and baggage, at Bolling Field. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A man can't cross a hundred thousand light years, mostly in other people's baggage compartments, without beginning to fray a little, and Arthur had frayed a lot.

I hired two mules with a guide to show me the way, and carry my small baggage.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Navigational aids, communications equipment, baggage handling and information systems, security equipment, and airfield lighting systems present best sales prospects for foreign companies. (references)

In accordance with international guidelines, Landvetter will have full screening of all check-in luggage by 2001. This will require investments in new baggage screening and handling systems. (references)

For example, CNS equipment classified under HS code 88.05 and notification number 20 attracts a total import duty of 32.6 percent, while X-Ray apparatus for baggage inspection classified under HS code 9022.19 is charged an import duty of 20.64 percent. (references)

Economic History

Japan

However, individuals in Japan can import quantities for personal use via mail or as personal baggage upon returning to Japan from foreign travel. (references)

Nigeria

A substantial quantity of Nigeria's imports in this sector come as accompanied baggage through the airport and usually are not reflected in import statistics. (references)

Uae

UAE's east coast port, Fujairah plans to expand its terminal by 4000 square meters, requiring baggage conveyor belts, flight information display monitors, catering equipment, and kitchen and restaurant equipment. (references)

Trade

India

Passenger Baggage: Household goods and personal effects can imported as part of passenger baggage. (references)

India

Samples of such items that are otherwise freely importable under the Policy may also be imported as part of passenger baggage without a license. (references)

Pakistan

The customs authorities will, however, inspect outbound baggage to ensure that no banned/restricted item is taken out of the country as accompanied personal baggage. (references)

Travel

Bulgaria

Large baggage also needs a ticket. (references)

Ghana

The personal baggage of a visitor is admitted free of duty. (references)

Mexico

Tickets are purchased at a booth near the baggage claim area. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "baggage": bag and baggage ♦ baggage allowance ♦ baggage car ♦ baggage check ♦ baggage checkroom ♦ baggage claim ♦ baggage hold ♦ baggage man ♦ baggage master ♦ baggage rack ♦ baggage reclaim ♦ baggage room ♦ baggage terminal ♦ baggage ticket ♦ baggage train ♦ baggage wagon ♦ carrier of baggage ♦ checked baggage ♦ excess baggage ♦ free baggage allowance ♦ hand baggage ♦ pack up bag and baggage ♦ piece of baggage ♦ registered baggage ♦ unaccompanied baggage ♦ with bag and baggage. Additional references.

Beginning with "baggage": baggage-animals, baggage-carrying, baggage-handling, baggage-list, baggage-room, baggage-servant, baggage-train, baggage-wagons.

Ending with "baggage": bag-and-baggage, eye-baggage, hand-baggage.

Afrikaans

bagasie (luggage). (various references)

Albanian

bagazh (luggage, trap, trunk), tesha (clothes, clothing, linen, luggage). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مومس (bawd, bitch, cocotte, courtesan, courtezan, drab, harlot, moll, prostitute, punk, scrubber, slattern, strumpet, tart, trollop, whore), ‏نظريات بالية, ‏حقائب السفر (luggage), ‏إمرأة شابة (flapper), ‏أمتعة (belongings, gear, kit, luggage, plunder, possessions, stuff), ‏ثقل (avoirdupois, ballast, gravity, heaviness, importance, luggage, ponderosity, significance, weight, weightiness), ‏بغى. (various references)

Bavarian

sachan (luggage). (various references)

Bulgarian 

багаж (belongings, goods, impedimenta, impediments, luggage, things, traps). (various references)

Chinese 

行李 (luggage). (various references)

Czech

bagáž, zavazadla (belongings, impedimenta, luggage). (various references)

Danish

bagage (luggage). (various references)

Dutch

bagage (luggage). (various references)

Esperanto

pakaĵo (luggage). (various references)

Farsi 

چمدان (Kist, Suitcase, Valise), باروبنه ء مسافر, بارسفر. (various references)

Finnish

matkatavarat (luggage). (various references)

French

bagage, colis. (various references)

Frisian

bagaazje (luggage). (various references)

German

gepäck (impedimenta, kit, luggage, pack), Reisegepäck (bags, luggage). (various references)

Greek 

αποσκευέσ (impedimenta, luggage), αποσκευή (gear, kit, luggage). (various references)

Hebrew 

מזו�"ות (luggage), מטען (burden, cargo, charge, dock, dunnage, freight, lading, load, luggage, stowage), כבו�"�" (belongings, burden, possessions). (various references)

Hungarian

poggyász (impedimenta, kit, luggage, pack). (various references)

Indonesian

barang (article, commodity, item, object, ware), bagasi (luggage rack, trunk). (various references)

Irish

bagáiste. (various references)

Italian

bagaglio (luggage). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

荷 (cargo, load). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

に (cargo, load, red, red earth, takes after, two). (various references)

Korean 

짐 (Burden, load, loads). (various references)

Manx

scudlagh (dunnage, impedimentia, kit, luggage, paraphernalia, traps), poagaght. (various references)

Norwegian

bagasje (luggage). (various references)

Papiamen

ekipahe (accoutrement, accoutrements, equipment, luggage). (various references)

Pig Latin

aggagebay.(various references)

Portuguese

bagagem (luggage). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

bagagens. (various references)

Romanian

bagaj (luggage, stock, stock in trade). (various references)

Romansch

bagascha. (various references)

Russian 

багаж (goods, luggage). (various references)

Scottish

bagaisde, trealaich (lumber, trash), stòr (a steep cliff, store). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prtljag (goods and chattels, impedimenta, luggage). (various references)

Spanish

equipaje (camouflage, carriole, equipage, equipment, kit, luggage, outfit, piece of baggage, piece of luggage, things), equipajes (luggage). (various references)

Sranan

bagasi (luggage). (various references)

Swedish

bagage (bagage, luggage, things), resgods (luggage). (various references)

Thai

กระเป๋าเ�"ินทาง (luggage, suitcase). (various references)

Turkish

bagaj (boot, luggage, trunk, well). (various references)

Turkmen 

bagaj (r). (various references)

Ukrainian

тягар (burden, clog, encumbrance, freight, load, onus, tax, weight), майно (asset, aught, capital, estate, goods, holding, property, stuff, things, worth), багаж (luggage), повія (bawd, call girl, cat, chippy, harlot, jilt, quean, streetwalker, strumpet, trollop, unfortunate, wagtail, whore, witch). (various references)

Vietnamese 

con ranh con, con mụ vô tích sự, đùa con mụ vô dụng. (various references)

Welsh

pac (bundle, pack), corodyn (toy, trifle), clud (luggage), celficyn (furniture, gear, tool). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "baggage": baggages. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Baggage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aagagag, bagage, Bagargui, Baggrave, Biggate, Blagajek, Haggage, Wagagai. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: gaga, gage.

-4 letters: aba, aga, age, baa, bag, beg, egg, gab, gae, gag.

-5 letters: aa, ab, ae, ag, ba, be.

+1 letter: baggages.

+3 letters: gangbanger.

+4 letters: gangbangers.