bag

/bæg/ verb [T] (present participle bagging, past tense and past participle bagged) informal

Definition

› to get something, especially before other people have a chance to take it: Bag us some decent seats.

(Definition of bag verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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