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bag
noun- an interest US, 1964
- Anyway you can also be a part-time new American head. That’s going to be my bag. — Nat Hentoff, I’m really dragged but nothing gets me down, p. 19, 1968
- I mean, what the hell’s the matter with you guys? You into some kind of fag bag awready? — Terry Southern, Blue Movie, p. 166, 1970
- Bulls ain’t never been my bag–but here’s to you, anyway, Big Jeff. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 17, 1975
- He was a painter and singer but his main bag was hustlin in de Paris streets. — Babs Gonzales, Movin’ On Down De Line, p. 17, 1975
- We realized that that was his bag, being revolting, and he got off when folks thought he was revolting. — Stephen Gaskin, Amazing DopeTales, p. 225, 1980
- My own personal bag is meditation–no don’t laugh. — Macfarlane, Macfarlane and Robson, The User, p. 13, 1996
- I don’t even know what this [a penis-enlarger] is. This sort of this ain’t my bag, baby. — Austin Powers, 1997
- a way of doing things US, 1962
- It was clear to me that we were in two different bags; I had it “made” because I had occupied my niche from the age of five, definitely by the time I was eight. — Odie Hawkins, Lost Angeles, p. 89, 1994
- an unattractive young woman AUSTRALIA
- Ah, not like the bags here in Woolloomooloo who are either too fat or too thin, too tall or too short. — Frank Hardy, The Yarns of Billy Borker, p. 26, 1965
- I found a girl, a friend of a friend, who looked like a refugee from the roller game. She was the worst bag you could find–and as unpleasant in manner as only a true bag could be. — Sue Rhodes, Now you’ll think I’m awful, p. 151, 1967
- She might be fat and untidy–or a real bag. I might end up being sorry I had to look at her. — Ward McNally, Supper at Happy Harry’s, p. 84, 1982
- As Bag of the Ball I was presented with a sash suited to the occasion. — Joe Brown, Just for the Record, p. 52, 1984
- a police uniform US, 1944
- — New York Times Magazine, p. 87, 16 March 1958
- I’d hate to be back in the bag, believe me. — Charles Whited, Chiodo, p. 54, 1973
- I tell you, it’s a whole different thing when you wear a nice suit to work instead of that damn bag. — Leonard Shecter and William Phillips, On the Pad, pp. 166–167, 1973
- duty as a uniformed police officer US
- [H]e suddenly declared that maybe he would get out of the pad someday, that if necessary he would go back to the “bag”–police slang for uniformed duty. — Peter Maas, Serpico, p. 187, 1973
- a breathalyser UK
By elipsis from “breathalyser bag”. - — Bournemouth Echo, 16 November 1967
- the scrotum US, 1938
- — Anon., King Smut’s Wet Dreams Interpreted, 1978
- a sexually promiscuous woman or a prostitute US, 1893
- a condom US, 1922
- — Dale Gordon, The Dominion Sex Dictionary, p. 25, 1967
- She was on the pill, but I used to use a bag with her anyway. — Screw, p. 9, 12 April 1971
- Like Brittney Skey as super-heroine Anal Woman advising Kurt Kockwoodon safe sex and telling him to use a bag, a rubber, a condom, if the pair hasn’t been tested for disease, and animated talking buttholes aplenty. — Editors of Adult Video News, The AVN Guide to the 500 Greatest Adult Films of All Time, p. 73, 2005
- a diaphragm US
- — Roger Blake, The American Dictionary of Sexual Terms, p. 11, 1964
- a collection raised in a single effort UK, 1900
Figurative application of the game-bag in which hunters gather their kill. - This “bag” on a single ship and a single voyage indicated the extent of Communist efforts to get a honeycomb of agents into the United States. — Harry J. Anslinger, The Murderers, p. 27, 1961
- a large score made by a player AUSTRALIA
- “How many did the big fella get?” “He killed ’em...he kicked a bag.” — Ivor Limb, Footy’s No Joke!, p. 8, 1986
- a package of drugs US, 1952
- A bag is his supply of drugs. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 54, 1960
- Now you know it’s a draf, hairlip I copped a bad bag. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 78, 1976
- Jimmy went and leaned up against a building with them and watched the whores go by and a pusher said you want a bag? — William T. Vollman, Whores for Gloria, p. 115, 1991
- a small paper packet or plastic bag containing heroin; thus a standardised measure of heroin, either by cost or volume US, 1952
Also variant “bagel”. - heroin UK
Adopted by drug-users from the sense of “bag” meaning “an interest or way of doing things”. - Bit of crack to make them high, bit of bag to lull the comedown. — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 77, 2001
- a parachute UK, 1943
Originally Royal Air Force usage, then the army also. - a fuel tank on an aeroplane US
- We’re loading you up with Rockeyes and giving you a full bag of gas. — Gerry Carroll, North S*A*R, p. 61, 1991
- a member of a college fraternity US, 1998
An abbreviation of BAGGERFRATTY BAGGER - bed US
- — John D. Bell et al., Loosely Speaking, p. 2, 1969
▶ bags are dragging
the supply of heroin is low US- Although his bags were dragging, Bud was bragging. — Michael H. Agar, The Journal of American Folklore, p. 177, 1971
▶ get a bag!
learn how to catch! AUSTRALIA
In cricket used as a derisive retort to a fielder who drops an easy catch.- — Richard Beckett, The Dinkum Aussie Dictionary, p. 26, 1986
▶ in the bag- drunk US, 1940
- You know. Drunk stewed, clobbered, gone, liquored up, oiled, stoned, in the bag. — Max Shulman, Guided Tour of Campus Humor, p. 106, 1955
- [T]he next night when he came in she was half in the bag[.] — George V. Higgins, The Rat on Fire, pp. 94–95, 1981
- It took him three hours and forty minutes to hike it half in the bag, from Thebes to the bridge, not seeing one goddman car on the road. — Elmore Leonard, Killshot, p. 287, 1989
- as good as done US, 1921
- Israel-Egyptian Peace Pact Believed Virtuallly “in the Bag” (Headline) — San Francisco News, p. 2, 21 February 1949
- The butler said it was in the bag. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 16, 1956
- corrupted, bribed, beholden to someone else US, 1926
- I’m not asking was the fight put in the bag. — Rocky Garciano (with Rowland Barber), Somebody Up There Likes Me, p. 307, 1955
- As far as he’s concerned, I’m in the bag. He gave me until the weekend to contact him. — Edwin Torres, Q & A, p. 175, 1977
- (of a horse) not being run on its merits; being run to lose; (of a jockey) not riding to win AUSTRALIA, 1903
Literally, the money that has been bet on the horse will stay in the bookmaker’s bag. - The owner of the horse was an undertaker by trade and very light with the sling so the jockey decided to put the horse “in the bag”. — Frank Hardy and Athol George Mulley, The Needy and the Greedy, p. 75, 1975
- During his career, Sam rejected many offers from the smart bookmakers to put him in the bag[.] — Joe Andersen, Winners Can Laugh, p. 148, 1982
▶ on someone’s bag
in golf, working as a caddie US- Angelo was on Jack’s bag for years, but he eventually retired and opened a restaurant in Miami. — Hubert Pedroli and Mary Tiegreen, Let the Big Dog Eat! A Dictionary of the Secret Language of Golf, p. 13, 2000
▶ out of the bag
unexpectedly good AUSTRALIA, 1954- She spoke good English and sat down and looked through all the drawings carefully and intelligently, asking questions all the time. Yumi was something out of the bag. — Les Such, A Yen for Yokohama, p. 59, 1963
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