bags
See also: BAGS
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Noun edit
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) Trousers.
- (slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.
Verb edit
bags
- third-person singular simple present indicative of bag
Etymology 2 edit
Grammatical extension of third-person singular form of bag (“make first claim on something”).
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Verb edit
bags (third-person singular simple present bagses, present participle bagsing, simple past and past participle bagsed)
- (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, UK) 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.
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bags
- Used to claim something for oneself, especially in the combination 'Bags I'.
- Bags I sit in the front seat!
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