Citations:bagspread

English citations of bagspread and bagspreading

Verb: "(slang, pejorative) to place one's bags on an adjacent seat or seats, thereby occupying more than one" edit

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  • 2015 January 10, Anthonism, “A man bagspreading and a woman manspreading”, in Man's Marbles[1], retrieved 2019-08-24:
    Have the stereoypical seat hog roles reversed?
  • 2016 January 10, Jeffrey Seglin, “Should #bagspreading be called out on trains?”, in The Right Thing[2], retrieved 2019-08-24:
    Though it certainly wasn't the first time Marie had seen such discourteous behavior on the subway, it was the first time she had witnessed such a confrontation where the bag spreader refused to move a bag when asked. (Twitter is chock full of photos of such culprits tagged #bagspreader or #bagspreading.)
  • 2017 June 13, “Beautiful gym bag on TTC rudely lets its useless owner take up a whole second seat”, in CBC Comedy[3], retrieved 2019-08-24:
    Ugh, enough bagspreading, please.
  • 2019 April 17, Caroline Mcguire, “BAG-GER OFF The most annoying thing for men accused of ‘manspreading’ is women ‘bagspreading’ on public transport – and they say it’s just as bad”, in The Sun[4]:
    Images of 'bagspreading' behaviour have been surfacing online, posted by angry men.
  • 2019 August 7, Faima Bakar, “Men’s rights activists have made an anti-bagspreading chair but it looks more like a sex device”, in Metro UK, retrieved 2019-08-24:
    Judging by the comments on the page, some men are really vexed by people who place their bags on the seat, a ‘phenomenon’ they refer to as shebagging and bagspreading.