bagger

[ bag-er ]
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noun
  1. a person who packs groceries or other items into bags.

  2. a bag of cloth or plastic attached to a power lawn mower to collect grass as it is cut.

Origin of bagger

1
1730–40, for earlier sense; bag + -er1

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How to use bagger in a sentence

  • Nearby Emory Pass is for peak baggers, and if you’re itching to put your four-wheel drive to work, try out tracks through the Caballo Mountains, just south of Caballo Lake State Park.

  • Some workers, including baggers and produce clerks, say they’ve been pulled into the distribution effort and told to monitor newly inoculated customers for side effects without proper training, protection or extra pay.

  • If the ring is thrown over one of the "base-hit" or "two-bagger" pegs, it shows the number of bases secured.

  • A self-important postmaster, especially of a little town, like the political carpet-bagger, has no respect for ancient landmarks.

    The Old Pike | Thomas B. Searight
  • The carpet bagger when not fighting the pestiferous vermin in the Chickahominy swamps was pilfering.

    The Broken Sword | Dennison Worthington
  • The old man saw the offensive carpet-bagger approaching the mansion and met him sternly with the interrogatory.

    The Broken Sword | Dennison Worthington
  • "Give me the paper and pencil, Mr. Wiggins, I will make the calculation for myself," said the carpet-bagger.

    The Broken Sword | Dennison Worthington