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Bags vs Bars - What's the difference?

bags | bars |

As verbs the difference between bags and bars

is that bags is to reserve for oneself while bars is third-person singular of bar.

As nouns the difference between bags and bars

is that bags is plural of lang=en while bars is plural of lang=en.

bags

English

Etymology 1

From

Alternative forms

* baggs

Verb

(es)
  • (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.
    Synonyms
    * (US) have dibs on

    Etymology 2

    From bag .

    Noun

    (head)
  • (uncountable) Eye circles.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (bag)

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    bars

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (sports) An event in gymnastics.
  • (sports) The apparatus on which this event is performed.

    • Derived terms

    * (gymnastics event) asymmetric bars, parallel bars, uneven bars

    References

    * Gymnastics

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bar)

    • Anagrams

    * ----