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TO BAG

Definition: BAG

BAG

Noun

1. A flexible container with a single opening; "he stuffed his laundry into a large bag".

2. The quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person); "his bag included two deer".

3. Place that runner must touch before scoring; "he scrambled to get back to the bag".

4. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women); "she reached into her bag and found a comb".

5. The quantity that a bag will hold; "he ate a large bag of popcorn".

6. A portable rectangular traveling bag for carrying clothes; "he carried his small bag onto the plane with him".

7. An ugly or ill-tempered woman; "he was romancing the old bag for her money".

8. Mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats).

9. An activity that you like or at which you are superior; "chemistry is not my cup of tea"; "his bag now is learning to play golf"; "marriage was scarcely his dish".

Verb

1. Capture or kill, as in hunting; "bag a few pheasants".

2. Hang loosely, like an empty bag.

3. Bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge.

4. Take unlawfully.

5. Put into a bag; "The supermarket clerk bagged the groceries".

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


Specialty Definition: TO BAG

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

To kill or capture animals, particularly mammalia and birds. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Crosswords: TO BAG

Specialty definitions using "TO BAG": CHECK WEIGHERMICROFILM-CAMERA OPERATORREDYE HAND. (references)
Etymologies containing "TO BAG": Etiquette. (references)

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Modern Usage: TO BAG

DomainUsage

Lyrics

No diggity, I try to bag it up, bag it up (No Diggity; performing artist: Blackstreet)

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

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Modern Translation: TO BAG

Language Translations for "TO BAG"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

jage (chase, hunt). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

jagen (chase, hunt). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pyytää (ask, ask for, beg, bid, catch, entreat, request, urgently request), pyydystää (captivate, capture, catch, grapple, snare, trap). (various references)

   

French

  

chasser. (various references)

   

German

  

erbeuten (achieve, acquire, attain, captivate, capture, carry off, catch, get, get away with, grapple, obtain, pillage, prey on). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

θηρεύω,κυνηγώ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

zsebre tesz (pocket, to pocket), zsákba rak (to sack), lazán csüng, kidagad (bunt, to balloon, to belly out, to jut out, to puff, to swell out), bezsebel (bag, to net, to pocket, to pouch). (various references)

   

Italian

  

cacciare (chase, chase away, dispelled, drive away, get to, Hunt, oust, plug, plunge, poke, prey, put, send down, shoot, stick, take out, throw out, tuck). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay agbay

   

Portuguese

  

caçar (chase, chevy, course, fowl, hunt, pursue, seek, shoot). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cobrar (call in, carry off, cash, charge, collect, draw, gain, get, pull in, put on, receive, regain, retrieve, take up), cazar (bag, catch out, chase, Chevy, get, go after, gun, hunt, prowl, pursue, shoot). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO BAG

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-g-o-t"

-1 letter: boat, bota, goat, toga.

-2 letters: abo, ago, bag, bat, boa, bog, bot, gab, gat, goa, gob, got, oat, tab, tag, tao, tog.

-3 letters: ab, ag, at, ba, bo, go, ta, to.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-g-o-t"
 

+2 letters: abought, boating, globate, gunboat, outbrag, pigboat, postbag, tugboat.

 

+3 letters: aborting, abrogate, bergamot, bloating, boasting, boatings, borating, bushgoat, cabotage, gadabout, globated, gunboats, longboat, obligate, obligati, obligato, outbrags, pigboats, postbags, sabotage, tabooing, taboring, tagboard, toboggan, tugboats.

 

+4 letters: abnegator, abrogated, abrogates, balloting, bergamots, bromating, bushgoats, cabotages, cogitable, combating, gadabouts, geobotany, globalist, longboats, obbligati, obbligato, objurgate, obligated, obligates, obligatos, obtaining, obviating, outbaking, probating, sabotaged, sabotages, subrogate, tabouring, tagboards, toboggans.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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