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bag(2) (iou)



bag verb1. [bag] Infl. -gg-. LME.
[from the noun.]
verb intrans. Swell out, bulge; Nautical drop away from the direct course. LME.
F. Marryat He was bagging to leeward like a..barge laden with a hay-stack.
b. Hang loosely; esp. (of trousers) become out of shape at the knees. E19.
verb trans. Put into a bag or bags. LME.
bag up store up.
verb trans. Cause to swell; cram full. LME.
J. Smeaton Almost all the lights [= windows] in the church, tho' not broke were bagged outward.
verb trans. Succeed in killing (so much game); gen. add to one's 'bag'; seize, catch; steal, appropriate. E19.
P. Hawker To bag a dozen head of game without missing. J. Dos Passos He was almost bagged by a taxicab crossing the street. T. Pynchon Slothrop's grandfather..in typical sarcasm and guile bagged his epitaph from Emily Dickinson, without a credit line.
b. Esp. among children: claim or reserve, usu. on the ground of being the first to do so. Freq. in bags I. slang. M19.
A. A. Milne Bags I all the presents. B. Marshall Bags I do not ask about the room. R. A. Knox The other girl bagging the hot-water pipes first.
bagger noun1 a person who or a machine which puts something into bags M18.