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Grammar : Verb
Spell : bag
Phonetic Transcription : bæg



Definition of bagged

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.
  • verb catch
  • verb droop
Example sentences :
  • Had she earned them by lying on her back or had she bagged them somewhere?
  • Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
  • Nobody has been bagged as yet, but the Clare folks are still hoping.
  • Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
  • I think the President was as pleased as if we had bagged some big game.
  • Extract from : « Camping with President Roosevelt » by John Burroughs
  • Under no circumstances, however, should the clusters be bagged while in blossom.
  • Extract from : « Manual of American Grape-Growing » by U. P. Hedrick
  • “They are bagged,” said I, getting my face clear for a moment.
  • Extract from : « Tom, Dick and Harry » by Talbot Baines Reed
  • We stepped in, bagged 'em, and gave 'em back to the Duke of Burghley.
  • Extract from : « The Grell Mystery » by Frank Froest
  • If I don't see you after we've bagged him I'd better charge him with housebreaking, I suppose?
  • Extract from : « The Grell Mystery » by Frank Froest
  • And now, he said, this old fox was to be bagged and tied up.
  • Extract from : « The Fifth Queen Crowned » by Ford Madox Ford
  • “He undershot, yet as I was bending close to it he would have bagged me,” I said.
  • Extract from : « A Virginia Scout » by Hugh Pendexter
  • They had “bagged” their game, it was true, but in what manner?
  • Extract from : « The Bush Boys » by Captain Mayne Reid

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