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Supermarket worker
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bagger
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bagger , Packer , sacker or bag boy , is an unofficial title given to a courtesy clerk at a supermarket . The primary duties of a bagger revolve around putting groceries into a shopping bag and then into a shopping cart . Upon requests, baggers may take ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a workman employed to pack things into containers [syn: packer , boxer ] a machine for putting objects or substances into bags
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "retailer in grain" (as a surname from mid-13c., probably "maker of bags"), also, 1740, "miser;" agent noun from bag (v.). Of persons who bag various things for a living, from 19c.; meaning "machine that puts things in bags" is from 1896.
Usage examples of bagger.
Shape-ups were held in the predawn down by the Vineland courthouse, shadowy brown buses idling in the dark, work and wages posted silently in the windows some mornings Zoyd had gone down, climbed on, ridden out with other newcomers, all cherry to the labor market up here, former artists or spiritual pilgrims now becoming choker setters, waiters and waitresses, baggers and checkout clerks, tree workers, truckdrivers, and framers, or taking temporary swamping jobs like this, all in the service of others, the ones who did the building, selling, buying and speculating.
Father and the other men organised the nightriders to keep the carpet baggers from organising the Negroes into an insurrection, he refused to have anything to do with it.
Jenna had heard many stories from Nicko about the Port lowlife—the smugglers and muggers, the pickpockets and cutpurses, the blaggers and baggers, all waiting to pounce on an unwary stranger as soon as night fell.
Even though the Johnsons had come down from the North, we were not carpet baggers as Missouri never seceded.