BAGS

"BAGS" is a plural of: bag.

Date "BAGS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Literature

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Synonym: BAGS

Crosswords: BAGS

Look at the fun bags on that hose hound (Dumb and Dumber; writing credit: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, and Bennett Yellin.)

My bags! (Mulholland Dr.; writing credit: David Lynch)

And then those three bags of potatoes we lifted last week, and, and, the mushrooms, the week before (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

You'll take the bags to the room (Miss Congeniality; writing credit: Marc Lawrence; Katie Ford)

What I mean, sir, is if you was to put me with this here sniper rifle anywhere up to and including one mile from Adolf Hitler with a clean line of sight well, pack your bags, boys (Saving Private Ryan; writing credit: Robert Rodat)

Of passengers and bags and crew (Clockwork Creep; performing artist: 10CC)

Can pack our bags and hit the sky (Fly Away From Here; performing artist: Aerosmith)

And our bags is packed and the car service is not late (If I Could Go; performing artist: Angie Martinez)

Packing up our bags maybe heading south (MY HOMETOWN; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

Your bags are packed not a word is spoken (Cold Day In July; performing artist: Dixie Chicks)

Humans are like tea bags. They never realize their strength until they are put in hot water. (references; author: unknown)

Three Bags Full (1949)

Oxford Bags (1926)

Three Black Bags (1913)

A Pair of Bags (1912)

U.S.P.O. Throwing Mail Into Bags (1903)

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

References

• The 2003 World Market Forecasts for Imported Paper and Paperboard Boxes, Bags and Packing Containers (reference)

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Luggage, Handbags, Briefcases and Leisure Bags (reference)

• The World Market for Paper and Paperboard Boxes, Bags and Packing Containers: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Paper and Paperboard Boxes, Bags and Packing Containers in Africa (reference)

• The 2000-2005 Outlook for Black Tea in Bags in Oceana (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Air Bags - Safety, Controversy, Adult-Child Deaths in Automobiles: Index of New Information (reference)

• Air bags safety : hearing before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, first session, April 29, 1997 (reference)

• Air Bags Safety: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, U.S. Senate (reference)

• Air bags, car seats, and child safety : hearing before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection of the Committee on Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, first session, April 28, 1997 (reference)

• Frontal Impact Protection: Seat Belts and Air Bags (Sp-947) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Hong Kong Leather Goods & Bags (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Accessories and You - Use Jewelry, Scarves, Belts, Bags & Shoes to Achieve a Desired Look (reference)

• Clothing & Sleeping Bags (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Brown Bags to Stardom Xv (reference)

• Bladder Bags & Interlude (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• M & S SYSTEMS VM-502 Replacement Paper Bags (reference)

• CASE CLOSED BAGS 504-001 Laptop Tote - Steve Collection (reference)

• CASE CLOSED BAGS Steve Laptop Tote - 504-010 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Hoover Type Z Allergen Vacuum Cleaner Replacement Bags, Package of 3 (reference)

• ALTO 29739 Filter Bags (For 10-Gallon ALTO Vacs) (5-Pack) (reference)

• CSF Breastmilk Bags - 50-pack (reference)

• Crib Sheet - Three Bags Full - Green (reference)

• Shark XSD204 4 Bags, 1 Belt, 2 Exhaust Filters for Shark UV204 (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

(2) color slides show different bags of snack chips. (1) bag of Lays brand potato chips, (1) bag of Doritos brand tortilla chips. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer).

Shown are various shots of a white woman and an asian nurse hanging bags of chemotherapy drugs. This photo was taken at M.D. Anderson in Texas. See artwork: Horizons of Cancer Research (GA-17). Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Pathfinder Air Bags. Credit: NASA.

Volunteers assist the Oyster Recovery Partnership in their effort to transplant oyster spat before the population is decimated by the Stylochus flatworm. Hatchery bags are stacked aboard the ROBERT LEE. Credit: America's Coastlines.

"Buy boat" ROBERT LEE, working with the Oyster Recovery Partnership, maneuvers among pallets of oyster hatchery bags. Volunteers from the Bay Bus Partnership Project in the water prepare the pallets to be loaded onto the boat. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Returning home with bags of clams on deck of a clam dredger. Credit: Fisheries.

Volunteers at Ft McHenry collect and remove bags of trash collected at the restoration site. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A shellfisherman heads in to weigh the quahogs he harvested for transfer to the spawner sanctuaries. The red bags contain the quahogs, Mercenaria mercenaria. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Plastic bags are meant to discourage boobies from landing on the masthead. Apparently they don't work. On the NOAA Ship McARTHUR during STAR 2000 operations in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Bags of grass seed created specifically for the burned area of the Cerro Grande Fire, Santa Fe NF, NM. Credit: USDA.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The day after his liberation, he saw before the door of an orange flower distillery at Grasse, some men who were unloading bags.

In the evening they walked back from the fields, carrying their folded cotton bags under their arms

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Health

They roam through the body, engulfing germs and destroying them. Neutrophils and monocytes are phagocytes that contain bags of potent chemicals that help destroy the germs they engulf. (references)

Do not pitch tents or place sleeping bags in areas in proximity to rodent droppings or burrows or near areas that may shelter rodents or provide food for them (e.g., garbage dumps or woodpiles). (references)

This infection can occur if the opening where the catheter enters your body becomes infected or if contamination occurs as the catheter is connected or disconnected from the bags. Peritonitis requires antibiotic treatment by your doctor. (references)

Business

Among these products are urine bags and accessories. (references)

Clover Golf Bags is the Argentine golf bag manufacturer. (references)

The market for golf clubs, balls, and bags moves $8 million annually. (references)

Economic History

Cote D'ivoire

The U.S. is most competitive in bulk shipments, i.e., 25 kg. kraft paper bags with plastic linings. (references)

Mauritius

Others include such activities as multimedia, software development, light engineering and the manufacture of bags. (references)

El Salvador

Demand for plastics and resins to produce bags and containers has increased as manufacturing, maquila, processing and packaging industries have grown. (references)

Human Rights

Sri Lanka

In other cases, victims must remain in unnatural positions for extended periods, or they have bags laced with insecticide, chili powder, or gasoline placed over their heads. (references)

Paraguay

In a September report, Amnesty stated that youths were kicked, beaten, suspended upside down, had plastic bags put over their heads, beaten on the back with a hammer, and had their feet scalded. (references)

Dominican Republic

Other forms include asphyxiation with plastic bags to elicit confessions, and a torture method called "roasting the chicken" in which the victim is placed over hot coals and turned until confessing. (references)

Minorities

United Kingdom

Although the residents claimed that their demonstration "was not against the children," the protest involved shouting sectarian abuse and throwing debris (including bags of urine) at the children. (references)

Trade

Taiwan

Bags or bales also must bear a nonrecurring number, date, or set of three or more letters. (references)

Maldives

Goods considered to be luxury items (cars) or those posing environmental dangers (cars, large motorcycles, plastic bags) are subject to very high duties, as much as 200%. (references)

Travel

Spain

Bags or other articles left unattended in Spain are likely to be stolen. (references)

Uk

Incidents of pickpocketing, muggings, street thefts of watches and jewelry, and theft of unattended bags are increasingly common. (references)

Worker Rights

Colombia

Younger children carry water and package coal, while those age 14 and up engage in more physically demanding labor such as carrying bags of coal. (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 "BAGS": a lot of bags ♦ Air Bags ♦ bags of ♦ bags of money ♦ direct bags ♦ dry storage area for boric acid in bags ♦ M bags ♦ money bags ♦ pack one's bags ♦ pair of bags ♦ suspended mail bags. Additional references.

Beginning with "BAGS": bags-under-eyes.

Ending with "BAGS": bean-bags, bin-bags, carrier-bags, golf-bags, gro-bags, hand-bags, kit-bags, mail-bags, saddle-bags, sleeping-bags, tea-bags.

Arabic 

‏حقائب (trap), ‏أكياس. (various references)

Bulgarian 

множество от (bags of), изобилие от (bags of). (various references)

Czech

spousty (bags of), fùra penìz (bags of money, piles of money). (various references)

Danish

beton i saekke (concrete in bags), stabling af sække på pallets (palletisation in bags), sæk med tomme sække (bag of empty sacks, sack of empty bags), papir tilskaaret til poser (shaped paper for bags), pakke mycelium (spawn in bags), M-sække (direct bags), klargjorte roerledningssektioner placeres paa traeslisker med saekke med straa-eller plasticfyld for at beskytte deres coating,hvorefter de loeftes for saa at blive lagt ned i roergraven ved hjaelp af traktoren med sidebom (and then picked up and lowered into the ditch by side-boom tractors, completed pipeline sections are laid on timber skids, with straw-or plastic-filled bags to protect the coating), gennemvaedede saekke (wetstained bags). (various references)

Dutch

colli's (bales, barrels, goods, packages), colli (bag, bale, bales, barrel, barrels, goods, package, packages). (various references)

Esperanto

sendaĵeroj (bales, barrels, goods, packages). (various references)

Finnish

tyhjiä pusseja sisältävä pussi (bag of empty sacks, sack of empty bags), pussiin pakattu ymppi (spawn in bags), pussiin pakattu rihmastovalmiste (spawn in bags). (various references)

French

bagages. (various references)

German

Säcke (bursas, sackfuls, sacks), Koffer (bag, case, chest, suitcase, trunk, trunks). (various references)

Greek 

συσκευασία σε πακέτα του ενός κιλού (package in one-kilo bags), σάκκοι Μ (direct bags, M bags), σάκκοι σκυροδέματος (concrete in bags), σάκκοι βρεγμένοι τοπικά (wetstained bags), σάκοι ή πλαίσια συγκράτησης (containment bags or frames), περιέκτης κενών σάκκων (bag of empty sacks, sack of empty bags), χαρτί κομμένο για την κατασκευή σάκκων (shaped paper for bags), εμβόλια σε σάκκους (spawn in bags), ταχυδρομικοί σάκκοι απευθείας αποστολής (direct bags, M bags), τα τελειωμένα τμήματα των αγωγών τοποθετούνται σε ξύλινη σχάρα,με σάκκους γεμάτους από άχυρο ή πλαστικό υλικό,για να προστατευτεί η επενδυ (with straw-or plastic-filled bags to protect the coating), δημιουργία σφαιριδίων στους σάκκους (palletisation in bags). (various references)

Hungarian

pantalló (pair of trousers, pantaloon, pantaloons, slacks, trousering), hosszúnadrág (pantaloon, slacks). (various references)

Irish

mhálaí, málaí. (various references)

Italian

borse (handbags). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

袋物 (bags and purses), お手玉 (juggling bags game), 俵物 (goods in straw bags), 俵数 (number of straw bags), 刺し (sharpened tube for testing rice in bags). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たわらもの (goods in straw bags), おてだま (juggling bags game), ひょうすう (number of straw bags, vote tally), ひょうもつ (goods in straw bags), さし (sandbank, sharpened tube for testing rice in bags, spit), ふくろもの (bags and purses). (various references)

Pig Latin

agsbay.(various references)

Portuguese

sacos, sacas, malas, mochilas, sacolas, malas (baggage). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

malas. (various references)

Romanian

pantaloni (breeches, continuation, nether garments, pair of bags, pantaloon, pants, trousers, unmentionables). (various references)

Russian 

множество (a great deal, a great many, a lot of, a world of, abundance, array, bags of, cloud, crowd, dozens, ensemble, great number, heap, legion, manifold, mass, mountain, multiples, multiplicity, multitude, ocean, oodles, orgy, pack, pile, plurality, set, stacks of, the many, the million, thousand, throng), изобилие (abundance, affluence, ampleness, bags of, exuberance, exuberancy, galore, luxuriance, myriad number, opulence, plenitude, plentifulness, plethora, prodigality, profusion, riot), джутовый мешок (jute bag, jute bags). (various references)

Scottish

builg (bellows). (various references)

Spanish

bolsas, pantalones (breeches, pantaloons, pants, slacks, trousers), pantalón (bottom, pair of trousers, pants, trousers). (various references)

Swedish

väskor, påsar. (various references)

Thai

กางเกงหลวมๆ (คำเก่า), จำนวนมาก (flood, loaded, much, ocean, raft). (various references)

Turkish

bol pantolon (galligaskins, slacks), pantolon (a pair of trousers, breeches, pair of bags, pantaloons, pants, trousers). (various references)

Ukrainian

зібратися (pack one's bags, recollect). (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "BAGS": bagsful. (additional references)

Words ending with "BAGS": airbags, beanbags, carpetbags, dirtbags, feedbags, fleabags, gasbags, gunnybags, handbags, litterbags, mailbags, moneybags, nosebags, postbags, ragbags, ratbags, saddlebags, sandbags, schoolbags, scumbags, seabags, sleazebags, windbags, workbags. (additional references)

Misspellings

"BAGS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abg, bab, babs, bacg, bacs, Bafs, Baga, bagas, bagasse, Bagca, bage, bagg, Bagh, bago, Bagsik, bagsy, bagus, Bagush, Bagust, bahg, bahs, bajs, bamg, baps, baug, bawg, bg, bgag, Bgas, bhag, Biagi, Biagis, bigas, bigs, bigst, biogs, blag, Blaga, blags, bo, bogo, Buggs, bugsy, Gbago, Gbgsa, Lbgas. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: gabs.

-1 letter: abs, bag, bas, gab, gas, sab, sag.

-2 letters: ab, ag, as, ba.

+1 letter: bangs, brags, gambs, garbs, grabs.

+2 letters: badges, bagass, bagels, barges, basing, belgas, bhangs, biogas, bogans, bugsha, gabies, gables, gambas, gambes, gasbag, gobans, sagbut, seabag.

+3 letters: abasing, ablings, abusing, airbags, ambages, badgers, bagasse, bagfuls, baggers, baggies, bagnios, bagsful, baguets, bagwigs, bakings, bandogs, bangers, bangles, bareges, bargees, barongs, bashing, basking, basting, beagles, beflags, begalls, begazes, beggars, beglads, belugas, biasing, bisnaga, bodegas, borages, boscage, boskage, brogans, bugshas, cubages, dagobas, gabbers, gabbles, gabbros, gabfest, gabions, gaboons, gambias, gambirs, gambits, gambles, gambols, garbles, gasbags, gazabos, gazebos, gimbals, gobangs, grabens, hagbush, hagbuts, nosebag, postbag, ragbags, ratbags, sabbing, sabeing, sabring, sagbuts, sandbag, scumbag, seabags, shebang, subgoal.