English

Alternative forms

• baggs

Verb

bags ‎(third-person singular simple present bagses, present participle bagsing, simple past and past participle bagsed)

1. (Australia, New Zealand) To reserve for oneself.
   • 2006, Jill Golden, Inventing Beatrice, page 81,

     So you were thrilled, and we picked out the mare for Harriet, and you bagsed the black, and I had the chestnut, and we all rode away one day.

   • 2007, Debra Oswald. Getting Air, page 66,

     Mum bagsed being the priestess who got to dangle Stone over the volcano by his ankles.

   • 2008, Kate Dellar-Evans, Best of Friends: The First Thirty Years of the Friendly Street Poets, page 13,

     Battered armchairs and a sofa were bagsed first; they were more comfortable than the school chairs that could get hard.

   • 2009, J. Lodge, Black Mail, page 316,

     ‘Hey, it′s my turn in the front,’ Kalista called as she realised her brother had bagsed the front seat.

Synonyms

• (US) have dibs on

Etymology 2

From bag.

Noun

bags

1. plural of bag
2. (uncountable) Dark circles under the eyes, caused by lack of sleep etc.

Verb

bags

1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of bag

Anagrams

• gabs

Danish

Noun

bags c

1. genitive singular indefinite of bag

Swedish

Noun

bags

1. indefinite genitive singular of bag