bags
Britishplural noun
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informal a lot; a great deal
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short for Oxford bags
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informal any pair of trousers
interjection
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Also: bags I. slang:childrens an indication of the desire to do, be, or have something
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uncouth
Example Sentences
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She’s in the lobby, laughing with fellow patrons while Peggy fills bags of popcorn and tends to the line that has formed at the concessions stand.
From Salon
I carefully loaded bags of chips, soda cans, candy and whatever weird items showed up.
In his ruling on the Morrisons dispute, tribunal judge Mark Baldwin said the supermarket had "failed to disclose the heat and grease/fluid retention features of the chicken paper bags".
From BBC
The building was unoccupied at the time, and no-one was hurt, but bags belonging to some pupils were destroyed or damaged.
From BBC
The bags cost just 62 cents each, and in three months, the clinics had helped save more than 500 people.
From Salon
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