bag+and+baggage

  • 41Baggage handler — In the airline industry, a baggage handler is a person who loads and unloads baggage (suitcases or luggage), and other cargo (airfreight, mail, counter to counter packages) for transport via aircraft. With most airlines, the formal job title is… …

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  • 42Baggage claim — The baggage claim area is an airport terminology that describes the area of an airport terminal where one claims checked in baggage after disembarking from an airline flight. For international arrivals, the area is usually in a restricted zone… …

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  • 43Baggage allowance — On the commercial transportation, mostly with airlines, the baggage allowance is the amount of checked or carry on luggage the airline will allow per passenger. On some airlines, this is the amount that is allowed free of charge. In other cases,… …

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  • 44bag — I. n 1. an unattractive and/or unpleasant woman. This usage originated in the early 20th century with the idea of a shapeless, heavy or burdensome female, previously expressed as baggage . 2. one s special interest or current preoccupation,… …

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  • 45baggage —    At the beginning of the seventeenth century it was possible to call a man ‘a baggage’, meaning that he was a worthless fellow, a nuisance. Apart from its luggage sense, the word at that time had also come to mean ‘rubbish’ or ‘refuse’. Applied …

    A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

  • 46Bag Lady — Infobox Single Name = Bag Lady Artist = Erykah Badu from Album = Mama s Gun B side = On On (Live) Released = flagicon|United StatesSeptember 12, 2000 (CD) flagicon|World October 12, 2000 (CD) Format = CD single, cassette single Recorded = Genre …

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  • 47bag — [13] English acquired bag from Old Norse baggi ‘bag, bundle’, but it does not appear in any other Germanic language, which suggests that it may have been borrowed at some point from a non Germanic language. Forms such as Old French bague, Italian …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 48bag — [13] English acquired bag from Old Norse baggi ‘bag, bundle’, but it does not appear in any other Germanic language, which suggests that it may have been borrowed at some point from a non Germanic language. Forms such as Old French bague, Italian …

    Word origins

  • 49bag, you old —     A contemptuous and insulting term used to a middle aged or older woman. The earlier term was ‘baggage’. This is one of those instances where ‘old’ is itself used insultingly. In Festival, by N.J.Crisp, occurs: ‘Oh, shut up, you hypocritical… …

    A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

  • 50baggage — n. 1 everyday belongings packed up in suitcases etc. for travelling; luggage. 2 the portable equipment of an army. 3 joc. or derog. a girl or woman. Phrases and idioms: baggage check US a luggage ticket. Etymology: ME f. OF bagage f. baguer tie… …

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