baggs

English

Verb

baggs (third-person singular simple present baggses, present participle baggsing, simple past and past participle baggsed)

1. Alternative spelling of bags (“lay dibs”)
   • 2005, Celine Spengeman, The Four Faced Liar: The Mystery of The Shandon Clock‎^[1], Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 147:

     In Simon’s house he and Rebecca were having a fight about who should put the angel on the tree.
     “It’s not fair Simon, I baggsed it before ya. D’ya remember last year, you put it up. Now it’s definitely my turn.” Rebecca felt defiant.

   • 2007, Anne Enright, The Gathering‎^[2], Black Cat, →ISBN, page 87:

     I had baggsed, on a whim, Ada’s swatches and books of cloth and they seemed such useless objects by the light of day that I pushed them into a bin on the street.