bags
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
- plural form 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) Loose-fitting trousers.
- third-person singular form of bag
bags (bagses, present participle bagsing; past and past participle bagsed)
- (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.
- 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],
- Used to claim something for oneself, especially in the combination 'Bags I'.
- Bags I sit in the front seat!
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