/ˈbæɡi/
OriginFrom bag + -y (adjectival suffix).
- Of clothing, very loose-fitting, so as to hang away from the body.
“When the YSL designer finally got to present Sunday, after the show tent pitched on a race course had been deemed unsafe, he had a surprise in store: the longest, bell-bottom pants since the start of ”
“The only way to safely avoid looking like a hipster, so far as I can tell, is to dress in oversize mesh jerseys bearing the logos of sports teams. Or to wear the blandest, baggiest, beige-est clothes ”
“He’d made some of the company’s baggiest-ever pants in response, and even baggier ones were in the works.”
- Of or relating to a British music genre of the 1980s and 1990s, influenced by Madchester and psychedelia and associated with baggy clothing.
“Pop historian Jon Savage listens to the best of the Stone Roses and their contemporaries – from Baby Ford to the Sabres of Paradise – and creates the perfect set of baggy playlists”
“The Birmingham band – now a five-piece after multi-instrumentalist James Balmont joined them – have ditched the loose and baggy guitar pop of 2013’s Where the Heaven Are We? in favour of psych-pop tha”
- figurativelyOf writing, etc.: overwrought; flabby; having too much padding.
- UKA member of the 1980/90s British music and fashion movement.
“I said dad you're a shabby / You run around and groove like a baggy / You're only here just out of habit”
- A small plastic bag, as for sandwiches.
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- Such a bag filled with marijuana.
Formsbaggier(comparative) · baggiest(superlative) · baggies(plural) · baggie(alternative)