bags
Pronunciation
  • enPR: băgz, IPA: /bæɡz/, /bæːɡz/
Noun
  1. plural form of bag
  2. (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.
  3. (slang) Loose-fitting trousers.
Verb
  1. third-person singular form of bag
Verb

bags (bagses, present participle bagsing; past and past participle bagsed)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To reserve for oneself.
    • 2006, Jill Golden, Inventing Beatrice, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=3CeGQfidTVAC&pg=PA81&dq=%22bagsing%22|%22bagsed%22|%22bagses%22&hl=en&ei=bCnGTtCPNeXcmAWBq5Ag&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22bagsing%22|%22bagsed%22|%22bagses%22&f=false 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, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=NReYekoYoYMC&pg=PA66&dq=%22bagsing%22|%22bagsed%22|%22bagses%22&hl=en&ei=zjHGTpy6Bor2mAWMzPQZ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22bagsing%22|%22bagsed%22|%22bagses%22&f=false 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, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=OXYlxPIzYKwC&pg=PA13&dq=%22bagsing%22|%22bagsed%22|%22bagses%22&hl=en&ei=VizGTtyWNI7PmAWa1uj3Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22bagsing%22|%22bagsed%22|%22bagses%22&f=false 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, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=33o13Nz1_scC&pg=PA316&dq=%22bagsing%22|%22bagsed%22|%22bagses%22&hl=en&ei=VizGTtyWNI7PmAWa1uj3Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22bagsing%22|%22bagsed%22|%22bagses%22&f=false page 316],
      ‘Hey, it′s my turn in the front,’ Kalista called as she realised her brother had bagsed the front seat.
Synonyms Interjection
  1. Used to claim something for oneself, especially in the combination 'Bags I'.
    Bags I sit in the front seat!



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