Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (drugs, also Baggie, baggie bag, baggy) a small plastic bag used popularly for holding small amounts of marijuana or powdered drugs; thus v. baggie, place in such a container (see cite 2017).

1970		D. Ponicsan Last Detail 98: Charlotte comes back with a Baggie in one hand and some strawberry paper in the other. ‘Grass, anybody?’.
1978		S. King Stand (1990) 440: She had found a baggie filled with marijuana in her sixteen-year-old’s room.
1988		D. Woodrell Muscle for the Wing 30: Wanda took a Baggie of home grown wacky-backy from the vegetable crisper.
1989		(con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 135: baggie bags plastic bags used in packaging cocaine and other drugs; also called ‘Sear-a-Meals’.
1994		G. Indiana Rent Boy 112: I caught the edge of the baggie and yanked it out of his pocket.
1997		J. Birmingham Tasmanian Babes Fiasco (1998) 199: Theo whipped a plastic baggie containing a Mars Bar’s worth of white powder. ‘This is great goey,’ he said.
2000		W.T. Vollmann Royal Family 248: I heard they found a baggy inside her pussy.
2002		Barb G. ‘Brothers in Arms’ at SlashCity.com 🌐 Joe actually smiled and pulled a baggie from his pocket. ‘Let’s get stupid and commiserate together.’.
2008		A. Wheatle Dirty South 157: Each baggy green wrapped up like Christmas prezzies?
2010		A. Steinberg Running the Books 294: Weighing out baggies of cocaine, loaded gun resting on the table.
2013		T. Black Ringer [ebook] n.p.: He’s twitching a bit, rubbing his nose. Could do with a wee line of Charlie, I’m thinking; it’s half on my mind to make him an offer for a wee baggie.
2015		L. McInerney Glorious Heresies 70: Ryan’s fingers [...] closed around the baggie in his pocket.
2017		T. Pluck Bad Boy Boogie [ebook] [He] buried the baggied revolver under his duffel.
2019		S.M. Jones Lives Laid Away [ebook] We had interrupted sorting the coke into small baggies.
2020		G. Krauze What They Was 176: He drops the baggie on the floor.
2021		L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 285: As someone who watched his fingers pinch the baggie shut.

2. (US) a contraceptive sheath.

1971

L. Pederson ‘An Approach to Urban Word Geography’ in AS XLVI:1/2 83: Trojans, raincoats [...] baggies, balloons.

3. (Aus.) a garbage sack.

2021

P. Papathanasiou Stoning 15: ‘[G]et the baggies.’ The constable retrieved two garbage bags.