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bag

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  1. catch                 
 
1. bag \'bag\ n [ME bagge, fr. ON baggi] 1: a flexible usu. closed 
   container for holding, storing, or carrying somet hing : as 1a: PURSE; esp 
   : HANDBAG  1b: a bag for game  1c: SUITCASE  2: something resembling a bag 
   : as  2a: a pouched or pendulous bodily part or organ; esp : UDDER  2b: a 
   puffed-out sag or bulge in cloth  2c: a square white canvas container to 
   mark a base in baseball  3: the amount contained in a bag  4a1: a quantity 
   of game taken  4a2: the maximum quantity of game permitted by law  4b: 
   SPOILS  4c: a group of persons or things  slang  5: a slovenly unattractive 
   woman  : SURE, CERTAIN  - in the bag 
2. bag vb or bagged;  or bag.ging 1: to swell out : BULGE  2: to hang 
   loosely  1: to cause to swell  2: to put into a bag  3a: to take (animals) 
   as game  3b: to get possession of  3c: CAPTURE, SEIZE; also : to shoot down 
   : DESTRO Y