noun
- A flexible container with a single opening.
- usage: "he stuffed his laundry into a large bag"
- The quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person. )
- usage: "his bag included two deer"
- A place that the runner must touch before scoring.
- usage: "he scrambled to get back to the bag"
- A container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women. )
- usage: "she reached into her bag and found a comb"
- The quantity that a bag will hold.
- usage: "he ate a large bag of popcorn"
- A portable rectangular container for carrying clothes.
- usage: "he carried his small bag onto the plane with him"
- An ugly or ill-tempered woman.
- usage: "he was romancing the old bag for her money"
- Mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats.
- An activity that you like or at which you are superior.
- usage: "chemistry is not my cup of tea"; "his bag now is learning to play golf"; "marriage was scarcely his dish"
verb
- Capture or kill, as in hunting.
- usage: "bag a few pheasants"
- Hang loosely, like an empty bag.
- Bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge.
- Take unlawfully.
- Put into a bag.
- usage: "The supermarket clerk bagged the groceries"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.i.) To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.
- (n.) A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.
- (n.) The quantity of game bagged.
- (n.) A sac or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow.
- (n.) A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.
- (v.t.) To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.
- (n.) A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee.
- (v.i.) To swell with arrogance.
- (v.t.) To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.
- (v.i.) To become pregnant.
- (v.t.) To seize, capture or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(
Military) BAG stands for
baggage
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.