bagged

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of bag.

   The clerk bagged each item carefully at the register.

   They have bagged the summit twice this year.

   Note

   One spelling does double duty: she bagged the groceries, and the groceries had been bagged. The g doubles before -ed, as with other short verbs ending in a single vowel and consonant. Every meaning of bag carries over into this form: packing, hunting, claiming a summit or a seat, and the slang uses for stealing or arresting. A sentence like they bagged the lot can mean packed it, claimed it or stole it, and only context decides.

2. 2
   adjective

   Placed inside a bag, typically for storage, sale, or transport.

   Bagged salad is convenient but spoils faster than whole heads.

   The store sells both loose and bagged candy by the register.

   Similarpackaged, prepackaged, packed

   Oppositeloose, unpackaged

   Note

   Beyond the supermarket shelf, the word belongs to freight and building trades, where it marks goods moved in sacks rather than loose. G. Freeman Allen writes in 1960 of bagged fertilizer going by rail. In Birdum or Bust! (2000), Bob Foster recalls hauling bagged cement to Pine Creek. It sits naturally before the name of a commodity, such as bagged cement, bagged coal or bagged grain, and is set against the same goods shipped in bulk.

3. 3
   adjectivecolloquial

   Caught or successfully hunted, and thus secured as one's catch or kill.

   The bagged deer was loaded onto the truck before dusk.

   Proud of their bagged quarry, the hunters posed for a photo.

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