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Originally Posted By: etaoinOriginally Posted By: BranShea(surprised to find that bag is really a verbe).
Don't remember having it ever seen used as such.
can I bag your groceries? or we could go out and bag some game?
:¬ )
It is a verb in Australian everyday usage. From Collins Compact Australian Dictionary:
"bag vb 14. Austral slang to criticize"
To bag someone or "bag them out" is to tease or provoke them with insults, often in a jocular way amongst friends, but sometimes in what amounts to bullying. I suspect it probably comes from Cockney slang. It also occurs as a participle, bagging/bagging out.
A similar trem, "sledging" is often used in cricket and other sports of disparaging or rude comments made to your opponents to put them off their game.
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