Citations:bagonize

English citations of bagonize

  1. To anxiously await the appearance of one's luggage on a baggage carousel.
    • 2007, David Crystal, Words Words Words, Oxford University Press (2007), →ISBN, page 25:
      Debagonization is actually a very important state, and I find it inexplicable that the word has not arrived in the language hitherto, as it affects all of us who have travelled by air. It is the cessation of anxiety when our luggage eventually emerges from the black hole of an airport carousel. Until that point we had been bagonizing, often for some time, when everyone else's luggage appeared, but not ours.