Antonyms for bag

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : bag

Phonetic Transcription : bæg

Definition of bag

Origin : c.1200, bagge, from Old Norse baggi or a similar Scandinavian source; not found in other Germanic languages, perhaps ultimately of Celtic origin. Disparaging slang for "woman" dates from 1924 (though various specialized senses of this are much older). Meaning "person's area of interest or expertise" is 1964, from Black English slang, from jazz sense of "category," probably via notion of putting something in a bag.
To be left holding the bag (and presumably nothing else), "cheated, swindled" is attested by 1793. Many figurative senses are from the notion of the game bag (late 15c.) into which the product of the hunt was placed; e.g. the verb meaning "to kill game" (1814) and its colloquial extension to "catch, seize, steal" (1818). To let the cat out of the bag "reveal the secret" is from 1760.

noun container for one's possesions
noun special interest
verb catch
verb droop

Example sentences :

Grace took out of her bag a guest towel she was embroidering.
Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower

And now I must pack up a few necessaries in my bag, and be off to Mr. Brunton's.
Extract from : « Life in London » by Edwin Hodder

With his bag in hand, he wandered through the streets, uncertain what to do or where to go.
Extract from : « Life in London » by Edwin Hodder

That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair.
Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle

I have a bag at my belt, camarade, and you have but to put your fist into it for what you want.
Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle

On these occasions he always determined to clear out the bag.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

He felt that modern methods and the best usage might not have approved of the bag.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

He's a sawhorse—he's as heavy in th' head as a bag of salt; he'll never do no good to nobody.
Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser

The porter wheeled a truck, bearing John's trunk and bag, up to them as he spoke.
Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine

Over his shoulder he carried a bag, tied round and round with a rope.
Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle

Synonyms for bag

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