A bag is something soft or hard used to hold things. People carry bags to keep their items safe and easy to move.
She puts books in her bag.
He carries a bag to school.
Bag can also mean a large amount of money or something valuable that someone gets. This is a more informal use.
He won a big bag of money.
The company made a bag of profits.
Bag means a fixed amount of something sold or stored in a soft container. For example, food like chips or apples can come in bags.
I bought a bag of apples.
She opened a bag of chips.
To bag something means to put it into a bag. This can be at a shop or when packing your things to go.
She bags fruit at the store.
I bagged all my clothes quickly.
To bag something means to catch or shoot it, like animals when hunting, or to score points in sports.
He bagged three deer this season.
She bagged the winning goal today.
A bag can be a large soft container filled with heavy materials like sand. People use these bags to stop water or build walls.
The workers filled sandbags for the flood.
They used bags to block water.
In computer science, a bag is a group of data items stored together without order. Bags can have repeated items and are used to organize information.
The program stores items in a bag.
A bag holds different data elements.
To bag something informally means to take or steal it, often quickly or secretly. It is not formal language and is used in speech.
They bagged the jewels last night.
He bagged some snacks from the store.
