baggie

noun

bag·​gie ˈba-gē How to pronounce baggie (audio)
plural baggies
: a usually small, clear plastic bag
… shoved his baggie of kumquats into the pocket of his Members Only jacket …Jonathan Lethem
My brother spent four days in jail. Police wanted to charge someone with possession of a baggie of crack cocaine they subsequently found under a nearby car, so they had chosen him.Chastity M. Pratt

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Taken by the apparent deterioration of his health, users made those clips go viral and eventually adapted the money spread into a mini-dance trend where users bop to the song before flaunting an obscene amount of cash (or weed baggies or fishing lures!). Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 19 Mar. 2025 Outside the Clevelander hotel, about a half-dozen officers surrounded Johnson and searched him, finding three baggies with a total of an eighth of an ounce of cannabis inside, according to an arrest report. Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2025 Listen to this article A drug charge against Marcus Jordan was adjusted by prosecutors after a state lab concluded the powder in a baggie in his pocket found during his arrest early this month was not cocaine but ketamine, according to court records. Cristóbal Reyes, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Feb. 2025 On the counter were plastic bags, each stuffed with three eggs, on sale for $2.99 a baggie. Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for baggie

Word History

Etymology

bag entry 1 + -ie

First Known Use

1963, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of baggie was in 1963

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“Baggie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/baggie. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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