baggage
English
Noun
(en-noun)
(usually, uncountable) Luggage; traveling equipment
- Please put your baggage in the trunk.
* {{quote-book, year=1929, author=Charles Georges Souli, title=Eastern Shame Girl, chapter=, edition= citation
, passage=As soon as they had determined on their course, Ya-nei slid under the bed, and made himself a place among the baggages . }}
* {{quote-news, year=1991, date=September 20, author=Jonathan Rosenbaum, title=Love Films: A Cassavetes Retrospective, work=Chicago Reader citation
, passage=Alone, she clings to her baggages on the street. }}
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(uncountable, informal) Factors, especially psychological ones, which interfere with a person’s ability to function effectively..
- He’s got a lot of emotional baggage .
* {{quote-book, year=1846, author=Henry Francis Cary, title=Lives of the English Poets, chapter=, edition= citation
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(obsolete, countable, pejorative) A woman
* {{quote-book, year=1828, author=Various, title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, No. 288, chapter=, edition= citation
, passage=Betty and Molly (they were soft-hearted baggages ) felt for their master–pitied their poor master! }}
* {{quote-book, year=1897, author=Charles Whibley, title=A Book of Scoundrels, chapter=, edition= citation
, passage=But he had a roving eye and a joyous temperament; and though he loved me better than any of the baggages to whom he paid court, he would not visit me so often as he should. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1910, author=Gertrude Hall, title=Chantecler, chapter=, edition= citation
, passage=But your perverse attempts to wring blushes from little baggages in convenient corners outrage my love of Love! }}
(military, countable, and, uncountable) An army’s portable equipment; its baggage train.
* {{quote-book, year=1865, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=History of Friedrich II of Prussia, chapter=, edition= citation
, passage=Friedrich decides to go down the River; he himself to Lowen, perhaps near twenty miles farther down, but where there is a Bridge and Highway leading over; Prince Leopold, with the heavier divisions and baggages , to Michelau, some miles nearer, and there to build his Pontoons and cross. }}
* 2007 , Norman Davies, No Simple Victory: World War II in Europe, 1939–1945 , New York: Penguin, p 305:
- In Poland, for example, the unknown Boles?aw Bierut, who appeared in 1944 in the baggage of the Red Army, and who played a prominent role as a ‘non-party figure’ in the Lublin Committee, turned out to be a Soviet employee formerly working for the Comintern.
Synonyms
* (luggage) luggage, gear, stuff, bags
Derived terms
* baggage carousel
* baggage claim
* baggage handler
* baggage reclaim
* baggage train
* bag and baggage
* blind baggage
* excess baggage
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bag
Noun
(en noun )
A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.
(label) A handbag
A suitcase.
A schoolbag, especially a backpack.
One’s preference.
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(label) An ugly woman.
(label) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
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(label) First, second, or third base.
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(label) A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
(label) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
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A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
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A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men’s hair behind, by way of ornament.
The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
A scrotum.
(label) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
Synonyms
* (flexible container) poke (obsolete), sack, tote
* (handbag) handbag, purse (US)
* (preference) cup of tea, thing
* (ugly woman) dog, hag
* (in mathematics) multiset
Hyponyms
* (flexible container) bindle
Verb
(bagg)
To put into a bag.
To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
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To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
(label) To furnish or load with a bag.
* Dryden
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To bring a woman one met on the street with one.
To laugh uncontrollably.
To criticise sarcastically.
(label) To provide artificial ventilation with a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
To swell or hang down like a full bag.
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To swell with arrogance.
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To become pregnant.
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Derived terms
{{der3, airbag, air bag
, bagboy
, baggage
, bagger
, baggy
, bag lady
, bag lunch
, bag of bones
, bag of tricks
, bag snatcher
, beanbag
, binbag
, carrier bag
, clutch bag
, dilly bag
, dime bag
, doggy bag
, double bagger
, douche bag
, dumb as a bag of hammers
, face like a bag of spanners
, handbag
, gladstone bag
, goody bag, goodie bag
, grab bag
, holdall, carryall, tote, tote bag
, in the bag
, kitbag
, let the cat out of the bag
, mixed bag
, moneybag
, overnight bag
, paper bag
, plastic bag
, schoolbag
, shopping bag
, shoulder bag
, sickbag
, sleeping bag
, teabag
, toolbag
, windbag}}
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