bags
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From bagsy
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bags (third-person singular simple present bagses, present participle bagsing, simple past and past participle bagsed)
- (Australian, New Zealand) To reserve for oneself.
- 2006, Jill Golden, Inventing Beatrice, page 81,
- 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.
- 2007, Debra Oswald. Getting Air, page 66,
- Mum bagsed being the priestess who got to dangle Stone over the volcano by his ankles.
- 2008, Kate Dellar-Evans, Best of Friends: The First Thirty Years of the Friendly Street Poets, page 13,
- Battered armchairs and a sofa were bagsed first; they were more comfortable than the school chairs that could get hard.
- 2009, J. Lodge, Black Mail, page 316,
- ‘Hey, it′s my turn in the front,’ Kalista called as she realised her brother had bagsed the front seat.
- 2006, Jill Golden, Inventing Beatrice, page 81,
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- (US) have dibs on
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From bag.
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bags
- Plural form of bag.
- (uncountable) Eye circles.
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bags
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bag.
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bags c.
- genitive singular indefinite of bag
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bags
- indefinite possessive singular of bag