baggs

English

Verb

baggs (third-person singular simple present baggses, present participle baggsing, simple past and past participle baggsed)

  1. Alternative spelling of bags (“lay dibs”).
    • 2005, Celine Spengeman, The Four Faced Liar: The Mystery of The Shandon Clock‎[1], Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 147:
      In Simon’s house he and Rebecca were having a fight about who should put the angel on the tree.
      “It’s not fair Simon, I baggsed it before ya. D’ya remember last year, you put it up. Now it’s definitely my turn.” Rebecca felt defiant.
    • 2007, Anne Enright, The Gathering‎[2], Black Cat, →ISBN, page 87:
      I had baggsed, on a whim, Ada’s swatches and books of cloth and they seemed such useless objects by the light of day that I pushed them into a bin on the street.
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