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bag verb- to arrest someone UK, 1824
- He wasn’t taking no chances on getting bagged. — Hal Ellson, Duke, p. 127, 1949
- Tito and Turk said they would get bagged and sent to Warwick by the time I got there. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 16, 1965
- I says pal, put that in your pocket before I bag you for bribery. — Leonard Shecter and William Phillips, On the Pad, p. 190, 1973
- “I might get bagged and have to go to jail.” — George Higgins, Cogan’s Trade, p. 151, 1974
- “Bag him,” said the chief, meaning “have him arrested.” — Richard Hamilton and Charles Barnard, 20,000 Alarms, p. 97, 1975
- Our only chance to bag him is if he tries it again. — Gerald Petievich, Money Men, p. 17, 1981
- to catch, capture or obtain something for yourself US, 1861
- [B]y midsummer he managed to bag 135 teachers, every one of them with impeccable credentials. — Max Shulman, Anyone Got a Match?, p. 66, 1964
- So, Ted, any ideas on who should we bag? Ted? — Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, 1989
- Yeah, I hear you bagged Martin Weir for Mr. Lovejoy. — Get Shorty, 1995
- to shoot down a plane UK, 1943
A hunting allusion in Royal Air Force use. - in sport, to score a specified number of goals or points AUSTRALIA
- He bagged ten. — June Factor, Kidspeak, 2000
- to disregard, dismiss or stop something US
Figurative use of throwing rubbish in a rubbish bag. - MRS CHANDLER: We are leaving for your grandmother’s. If you’d care to join us... HEATHER CHANDLER: Bag that. MRS CHANDLER: Is that a “No” in your lingo? — Heathers, 1988
- to cancel a social engagement CANADA
The Dictionary of American Regional English lists a related meaning: “to feign illness in order to avoid one’s responsibilities” from 1967. - “When you want something from someone, you don’t bag. Bagging won’t get you laid. It won’t make you money. It certainly won’t make you friends.” — Toronto Globe and Mail, p. L3, 20 April 2002
- to abandon or leave a place or thing US, 1962
- Let’s bag the mall. It’s boring. — American Beauty, 1999
- to criticise or denigrate someone or something AUSTRALIA, 1969
- She did bag her father, call John Cain “an ill-bred little cur” and announce impetuously her family members were not fools where money was concerned. — Sun-Herald, p. 116, 13 May 1990
- to dismiss from employment UK: SCOTLAND
A variation of SACK- — Michael Munro, The Patter, Another Blast, 1988
- to bribe someone; to arrange an outcome US
- Bagging of a baseball game down in the Carolina League came as a shock to fans and officials throughout the country. — San Francisco Examiner, p. 27, 3 June 1948
- We wink and laugh at wrestling. We go for the bagged fight. — San Francisco News, p. 17, 28 February 1951
- He became a pigeon for the FBI and fed them information on how football games were supposed to be bagged by the mob in different parts of the country. — Vincent Teresa, My Life in the Mafia, p. 144, 1973
- to impregnate US
- — Vincent J. Monteleone, Criminal Slang, p. 15, 1949
- to hang in loose folds UK, 1824
Especially applied to trousers out of shape at the knees. - “That’s what mob guys do,” Chili said, “they sit down they take time to arrange the creases in their pants, so the knees don’t bag, then check it every few minutes.” — Elmore Leonard, Be Cool, p. 181, 1999
- to use a resuscitation bag UK
Medical use. - We’ve bronched him, tubed him, bagged him, [and] cathed him. — Diane Johnson, Doctor Talk, 1980
- to sleep, to doze US
- — Judi Sanders, Mashing and Munching in Ames, p. 1, 1994
- to leave US
Hawaiian youth usage. - — Douglas Simonson, Pidgin to da Max, 1981
- to seduce US
- At seventeen, you were a real nigga if you could bag a chick that wasn’t from the neighborhood on the walk-by. — Earl “DMX” Simmons, E.A.R.L., p. 134, 2002
- to disparage US
- “I get hyper, and I start baggin’—talkin’ about somebody, everybody.” — Leon Bing, Do or Die, p. 57, 1991
▶ bag ass to leave, especially in a hurry US- — Helen Dahlskog (Editor), A Dictionary of Contemporary and Colloquial Usage, p. 5, 1972
▶ bag beaver to have sex with a woman US Combining hunting and sexual metaphors.- — Michael Dalton Johnson, Talking Trash with Redd Foxx, p. 72, 1994
▶ bag your head to stop talking US- — Joseph E. Ragen and Charles Finston, Inside the World’s Toughest Prison, p. 789, 1962
▶ have a bag on to be drunk US- Mrs. Doherty, according to eyewitnesses, not to mention authoritative sources, had a bag on. She was drinking champagne. — Earl Wilson, I Am Gazing Into My 8-Ball, p. 151, 1945
-bagsuffix when in combination with an undesirable thing, used to label a person who epitomises the unpleasant quality UK, 1988 Michael Munro in The Patter, Another Blast (1988) offers the examples “crap-bag” (a coward), GROTBAG
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