Baggy

/ˈbæɡi/ · adjective

Meaning

Of clothing, very loose-fitting, so as to hang away from the body..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of clothing, very loose-fitting, so as to hang away from the body.
2. (music) Of or relating to a British music genre of the 1980s and 1990s, influenced by Madchester and psychedelia and associated with baggy clothing.
3. (figurative) Of writing, etc.: overwrought; flabby; having too much padding.
4. (UK) A member of the 1980/90s British music and fashion movement.
5. A small plastic bag, as for sandwiches.
6. Such a bag filled with marijuana.

Example Sentences

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 1970s — and the baggiest since rapper chic.

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 possible, like a middle-aged tourist.

He’d made some of the company’s baggiest-ever pants in response, and even baggier ones were in the works.

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 that contorts itself into pulsing Balearic acid house and motorik rhythms.

a baggy book

I said dad you're a shabby / You run around and groove like a baggy / You're only here just out of habit

2008 March 6, Kristen Hinmen, "News Real: Seeing Red", Riverfront Times volume 32 number 10, page 10, In an accompanying affidavit, Apazeller reported that Onstott "has entered the kitchen with a handful of cocaine and asked for a plastic baggy."

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• baggier
• baggiest
• baggies
• baggie

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