bagged adj.1
1. (also bagged up) arrested, caught, imprisoned; fooled.
![]() | Bell’s Life in Sydney 21 Aug. 3/2: [headline] Bagman Bagged. | |
![]() | Secrets of the Great City 358: The Detectives’ Manual gives a glossary of this language, from which we take the following specimens [...] Bagged. – Imprisoned. | |
![]() | Man Traps of N.Y. 30: Of great value, cribbed it you know, ’fraid I’ll be bagged if I hock it. | |
![]() | Aus. Sl. Dict. 5: Bagged, imprisoned. | |
![]() | Grimhaven 115: Jockey was laughing because we had allowed ourselves to be bagged – we were suckers. | |
![]() | Und. Speaks. | |
![]() | Friends of Eddie Coyle 161: They all got bagged in a house up in Nahant this morning. | |
![]() | (ref. to 1890s) ‘Gloss. of Larrikin Terms’ in Larrikins 201: bagged: imprisoned. | |
![]() | Lowspeak. | |
![]() | 🎵 I got bagged up for a bad suck / I guess it’s over now nigga got bad luck. | ‘Flagrant Cops’|
![]() | Forensic Linguistic Databank 🌐 Bagged – caught by the police, arrested. | (ed.) ‘Drill Slang Glossary’ at
2. as bagged up, in one’s cell.
![]() | cited in DSUE (1984). |