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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
baggage
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
baggage car
baggage reclaim
baggage room
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
excess
▪ With hips at 44.5 inches and thighs at 25 inches, it was no wonder Rudolph had been complaining about excess baggage.
▪ When you had those you could drop, junk and forget the rest, which were only a burden or excess baggage.
▪ And psychically speaking, I can't help feeling they carry a little too much excess baggage.
old
▪ And now the old baggage was twisting everything; building something out of nothing.
▪ It was all wrong and back to front, but no one could say the old baggage lacked for courage.
▪ There was truth in that, but not what the silly old baggage was thinking.
▪ Oh Christmas, let the old baggage be convinced!
▪ Not stay and wait to be thrown out after they'd ceased to be any use to the old baggage.
■ NOUN
car
▪ But Jimmy and the older children were locked in a windowless baggage car, and their excitement soon turned to tedium.
handler
▪ Before long, Giles was being employed as a mundane baggage handler, at Heathrow.
▪ General Workers Union, the union to which the baggage handlers belong, was unavailable for comment.
▪ Up behind the engine, two baggage handlers were loading a small pile of boxes.
■ VERB
carry
▪ Co-housing might seem to carry the ideological baggage of communes from decades past.
▪ Mr Hashimoto carries his share of baggage from the old political order.
▪ Because his sound-world is leaner, his playing sometimes seems more direct, carrying less historical baggage.
▪ Rick Lazio, 42, a moderate from Long Island who is largely unknown statewide but carries little obvious baggage.
▪ No money ever left the federal coffers without carrying a baggage of conditions, guidelines, and restrictions.
▪ He carries no emotional baggage, not on the surface anyway.
▪ But be assured, most people carry more writing-related baggage than a mail carrier does letters.
▪ It was unlikely that this highly efficient virus would carry any superfluous baggage.
check
▪ If I were going to transport priceless jewels in checked baggage, he thought, I would try to conceal them somehow.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bag and baggage
▪ What if Penry took one look at her and threw her out, bag and baggage?
excess baggage/luggage
▪ And psychically speaking, I can't help feeling they carry a little too much excess baggage.
▪ When you had those you could drop, junk and forget the rest, which were only a burden or excess baggage.
▪ With hips at 44.5 inches and thighs at 25 inches, it was no wonder Rudolph had been complaining about excess baggage.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Being abused as a child, she brings a lot of baggage into the marriage.
▪ carry-on baggage
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After baggage and passport checks, passengers are individually quizzed by interrogators.
▪ But be assured, most people carry more writing-related baggage than a mail carrier does letters.
▪ David jumped down on to the platform and put up his hands for the baggage.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
baggage

baggage \bag"gage\ (b[a^]g"g[asl]j), n. [F. bagage, from OF. bague bundle. In senses 6 and 7 cf. F. bagasse a prostitute. See Bag, n.]

  1. The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army.

    Note: ``The term itself is made to apply chiefly to articles of clothing and to small personal effects.''
    --Farrow.

  2. The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage.

    The baronet's baggage on the roof of the coach.
    --Thackeray.

    We saw our baggage following below.
    --Johnson.

    Note: The English usually call this luggage.

  3. Purulent matter. [Obs.]
    --Barrough.

  4. Trashy talk. [Obs.]
    --Ascham.

  5. A man of bad character. [Obs.]
    --Holland.

  6. A woman of loose morals; a prostitute.

    A disreputable, daring, laughing, painted French baggage.
    --Thackeray.

  7. A romping, saucy girl. [Playful]
    --Goldsmith.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
baggage

mid-15c., "portable equipment of an army; plunder, loot," from Old French bagage "baggage, (military) equipment" (14c.), from bague "pack, bundle, sack," ultimately from the same Scandinavian source that yielded bag (n.). Baggage-smasher (1851) was American English slang for "railway porter."

Wiktionary
baggage

n. (context usually uncountable English) luggage; traveling equipment

WordNet
baggage
  1. n. a case used to carry belongings when traveling [syn: luggage]

  2. a worthless or immoral woman

Wikipedia
Baggage

Baggage or luggage consists of bags, cases, and containers which hold a traveller's articles during transit.

The modern traveller can be expected to have packages containing clothing, toiletries, small possessions, trip necessities, and on the return-trip, souvenirs. For some people, luggage and the style thereof is representative of the owner's wealth.

Baggage (not luggage), or baggage train, can also refer to the train of people and goods, both military and of a personal nature, which commonly followed pre-modern armies on campaign.

Baggage (album)

Baggage was the first studio album from the NY band Sirsy. Released September 2000 and Re-Released in November 2002.

Baggage (radio show)

Baggage is a BBC Radio 4 situation comedy which by August 2009 had aired for 4 series, each consisting of 6 30-minute episodes. Series 1 aired from April 2005, Series 2 from July 2006, Series 3 from December 2007 and Series 4 from July 2009. It starred Hilary Lyon, Phyllis Logan, Adie Allen, and Stuart McQuarrie. It was written by Hilary Lyon and directed by Marilyn Imrie.

Baggage (disambiguation)

Baggage is any number of bags, cases and containers which hold a traveller's articles during transit.

Baggage may also refer to:

Baggage (U.S. game show)

Baggage is an American dating game show hosted by Jerry Springer and broadcast by Game Show Network. The original series premiered on April 19, 2010, airing for four seasons. A spin-off series, entitled Baggage on the Road, aired for one season, which debuted January 7, 2015. The show has earned high ratings by GSN's standards; despite this, it has also received mixed critical reception.

The series gives three contestants the chance to win the eye of a prospective date. The contestants carry three suitcases onstage: a small, medium, and large one. Each suitcase contains an embarrassing, gross, unique, or weird proposition the contestant may have. These cases represent the "baggage" to which they will confess and defend. The bigger the suitcase, the bigger the secret. Once the three contestants are pared down to one, the potential dater must admit to a fault of his or her own.

Baggage (House)

"Baggage" is the twenty-first episode of the sixth season of the American medical drama House. It aired on May 10, 2010. The episode deals with Dr. Nolan trying to help House by getting him to recount the events of the past week. The critical response was generally positive.

Baggage (The Americans)

"Baggage" is the second episode of third season of the American television drama series The Americans, and the 28th overall episode of the series. It originally aired on February 4, 2015 in the United States on FX.

Baggage (UK game show)

Baggage is a British television game show based on the American programme of the same name. The series, hosted by Gok Wan, premiered on Channel 4 on 21 September 2012.

Usage examples of "baggage".

They were now blind and apathetic, mindless perhaps, baggage which Mastrovin could cart about as he chose.

There was a flask of arrack waiting in his baggage and he wanted to get these proceedings over and done.

There was, in that garment bag, undoubtedly a second jumpsuit for Asad Khalil, and he had it on at some point, knowing that baggage handlers would come aboard to collect carry-on luggage.

Lord Tadai and his companions could manage to pack the ships with so much baggage, but when she saw the tents, betasseled and brocaded, begin to come out of the narrow hulls, she understood.

Monica and Howard had stationed themselves by the baggage carousels and they waved enthusiastically as she appeared, Monica a lot blonder and Howard only slightly balder.

Inez was assigned to help the two men carrying Singer, for each of them was also burdened with his baggage.

She replied that a wife, if a good one, would have been only too happy to alleviate my troubles by sharing in them, but her mother observed that a woman of parts, after seeing to the safety of my baggage and my coach, would have busied herself in taking the necessary steps for setting me at liberty, and I supported this opinion as best indicating the real duty of a good wife.

When all was ready a man came for our slight baggage, and we walked to the river where the count was waiting for us.

The other division, with the baggage and artillery, crossed lower down, at Cheadle, on a hastily constructed bridge, and the two columns joined that evening at Macclesfield.

Ed would, and so would Mary-Claire Grey and that baggage Citronella Pratt.

Her baggage arrived by the carrier, and Coode came in and helped with it and effaced himself when he had done all that she had asked him to do.

Carl brought her baggage down to the depot and helped the driver load it onto the coach while Coy and Bethany said their farewell.

I then ordered my people to get ready several horses and mules, which I loaded with baggage and provisions, gave the man a bag of ten thousand dirhems, with another of five thousand dinars, and ordered my lieutenant to escort him on his journey to Damascus as far as Anbar.

But when he conceived his journey to Ninar Foan, he knew at once that he must include some of that common sense among his baggage.

The same afternoon saw the long column of the prisoners on its way to Modder River, there to be entrained for Cape Town, the most singular lot of people to be seen at that moment upon earth--ragged, patched, grotesque, some with goloshes, some with umbrellas, coffee-pots, and Bibles, their favourite baggage.