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bag
A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
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All Definitions for Bag

Below are all the dictionary definitions of bag:

1A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
2A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, briefcases, handbags, backpacks, etc.
3One's preference.
4An ugly woman.
5The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
6First, second, or third base.
7To put into a bag.
8To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
9To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
10To steal.
11(countable, uncountable) In certain phrases: money.
12A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
13(vulgar) The scrotum.
14The human female breast.
15A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
16A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
17A large number or amount.
18A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
19A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
20A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
21An udder, especially the pendulous one of a dairy cow.
22The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
23To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
24To fit with a bag to collect urine.
25To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
26To furnish or load with a bag.
27To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
28To hang like an empty bag.
29To drop away from the correct course.
30To forget, ignore, or get rid of.
31To laugh uncontrollably.
32To criticise sarcastically.
33A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig
34A bag wig.
35To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.
36To become pregnant.
37(US, gay slang, derogatory) A fellow gay man.
38(Cockney rhyming slang) £1000, a grand.
39To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.
40To arrest.

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Common antonyms for bag. These words express opposite or contrasting meanings and can be used to create contrast in writing.

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About antonyms for bag

Finding the right antonym for bag helps writers create contrast, clarify meaning, and add depth to their work. Defined as "A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.", bag has 0 opposite words that can be used to express contrasting ideas.

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