Bans vs Bags - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between bans and bags

is that bans is while bags is .

is that bans is (ban) while bags is (australia|new zealand) to reserve for oneself or bags can be (bag).

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(Australia, New Zealand) To reserve for oneself.

* 2006 , Jill Golden, Inventing Beatrice , page 81,

So you were thrilled, and we picked out the mare for Harriet, and you bagsed the black, and I had the chestnut, and we all rode away one day.

* 2007 , Debra Oswald. Getting Air , page 66,

Mum bagsed being the priestess who got to dangle Stone over the volcano by his ankles.

* 2008 , Kate Dellar-Evans, Best of Friends: The First Thirty Years of the Friendly Street Poets , page 13,

Battered armchairs and a sofa were bagsed first; they were more comfortable than the school chairs that could get hard.

* 2009 , J. Lodge, Black Mail , page 316,

‘Hey, it?s my turn in the front,’ Kalista called as she realised her brother had bagsed the front seat.

* (US) have dibs on

From bag .

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(uncountable) Eye circles.

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