bags
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
bags
- plural of bag
- (often in the phrase 'bags of') A large quantity.
- No need to rush, there's bags of time.
- Please take as many coat hangers as you like. I've got bags.
- (slang) Loose-fitting trousers.
Verb
bags
- third-person singular simple present indicative of bag
Etymology 2
Grammatical extension of third-person singular form of bag (“make first claim on something”).
Alternative forms
Verb
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- (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) 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.
- 2016, Laurence Fearnley, The Quiet Spectacular, →ISBN, page 214:
- They used to share the water as kids, and for some reason Irene always managed to bags the first bath; Riva made do with the soapy second.
- 2006, Jill Golden, Inventing Beatrice, page 81,
Synonyms
Interjection
bags
- Used to claim something for oneself, especially in the combination 'Bags I'.
- Bags I sit in the front seat!
Anagrams
Danish
Noun
bags c
Swedish
Noun
bags
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