Crossword clues for baggage
baggage
- You might check it or put it in the overhead compartment
- Traveler's burden
- Something carried on road trips
- It can be checked or stowed
- Impediments, so to speak
- Hotel entrance amenity
- Emotional issues, in metaphor
- Emotional impediments
- Emotional burden
- A former army’s means of moving equipment
- A big gal came running across entrance to Gatwick arrivals area
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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.''
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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.
Purulent matter. [Obs.]
--Barrough.Trashy talk. [Obs.]
--Ascham.A man of bad character. [Obs.]
--Holland.-
A woman of loose morals; a prostitute.
A disreputable, daring, laughing, painted French baggage.
--Thackeray. A romping, saucy girl. [Playful]
--Goldsmith.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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
n. (context usually uncountable English) luggage; traveling equipment
WordNet
n. a case used to carry belongings when traveling [syn: luggage]
a worthless or immoral woman
Wikipedia
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 was the first studio album from the NY band Sirsy. Released September 2000 and Re-Released in November 2002.
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 is any number of bags, cases and containers which hold a traveller's articles during transit.
Baggage may also refer to:
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" 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" 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 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.