Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The trunks, bags, parcels, and suitcases in which one carries one's belongings while traveling; luggage.
- n. The movable equipment and supplies of an army.
- n. Superfluous or burdensome practices, regulations, ideas, or traits.
- n. A woman prostitute.
- n. An impudent girl or woman.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The bags, trunks, valises, satchels, packages, etc., and their contents, which a traveler requires or takes with him on a journey: now usually called luggage in Great Britain. In law, baggage includes whatever the passenger takes with him for his personal use or convenience, according to the habits or wants of the particular class to which he belongs, with reference either to the immediate necessities or to the ultimate purpose of the journey.
(Chief Justice Cockburn.) - n. Specifically The portable equipment, including the tents, clothing, utensils, and other necessaries, of an army or other moving body of men; impedimenta.
- n. Trash; rubbish; refuse.
- Trashy; rubbishy; refuse; worthless.
- n. A worthless person, especially a worthless woman; a strumpet.
- n. A playful, saucy young woman: a flirt: usually in conjunction with such qualifying words as cunning, sly, saucy, etc.
- Worthless; vile: said of persons: as, a baggage fellow.
Wiktionary
- n. Luggage; traveling equipment
- n. Factors that restrict a person's freedom, often in an intellectual or psychological way
- n. A woman
- n. An army's portable equipment; its baggage train.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army.
- n. The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage.
- n. Purulent matter.
- n. Trashy talk.
- n. A man of bad character.
- n. A woman of loose morals; a prostitute.
- n. A romping, saucy girl.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the portable equipment and supplies of an army
- n. cases used to carry belongings when traveling
- n. a worthless or immoral woman
Etymologies
- Middle English bagage, from Old French bague, bundle, perhaps of Germanic origin. Sense 4, perhaps from French bagasse, from Provençal bagassa, ultimately from Arabic baġīy, prostitute, from baġā, to fornicate; see bġy in Semitic roots.
Examples
“According to HuffPost's Elise Foley, Republican voters across the state are now using the phrase "baggage" to describe Gingrich.”
“But my baggage is my baggage, and when I can quit letting societal expectations of mothers, which are as unrealistic as expecting all women to look like Tyra Banks, I doubt the snugglebunny moms will bother me anymore.”
Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Those Brain-Dead Parents.
“Unfortunately for her, Mrs. Clinton's "baggage" is her husband.”
“The rest of the company struggles with things like rapid deployment, social networking, and sometimes even internationalization (lots of baggage from a US-centric culture).”
“A star athlete with baggage is worshipped and wonderful.”
Could Lawrence Taylor's off-field problems have been prevented?
“The fact that so many airlines routinely ignore weighing cabin baggage also suggests that their margins for this calculation are quite broad (unlike smaller charter planes where they actually do weigh the passengers before boarding).”
HLO Day 14: Online Check-In Saves The Day | Lifehacker Australia
“Yes | No | Report from jeffo52284 wrote 6 weeks 5 days ago sounds like alterier motives are at hand here. i i could understand banning from carry on but checked baggage is just some moron making a point”
“Please prepare for boarding, and ensure that your mental baggage is securely stowed in the overhead compartments ....”
Social Security Privatization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“When you fully engage in the present, there is no room for baggage from the past or fear of the future.”
“When that baggage is gone, there is more space for truth.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘baggage’.
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The -ages of Man(-age)
Trivet also has this list, which you should go see. And then I found this list, and this list...
manage, salvage, selvadge, savage, voyage, umbrage, entourage, homage, carriage, marriage, language, potage and 123 more...
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The Pain of Texting
Words that are a pain in the ass to type in on a numerical keypad on a cell phone because they have consecutive letters that share the same button:
2 - ABC
3 - DEF
4 - GHI...defcon, hi, no, attitude, xylophone, on, monday, monkey, mono, dig, back, babble and 212 more...
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Grade 4
Accurate, address, afford, alert, analyze, ancrstor, ancestor, annual, apparent, appropriate, arena, arrest and 29 more...
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Gee, that's hard and soft!
Words that contain both a "hard G" and a "soft G".
gauge, garage, gorge, gorgeous, gigantic, grudge, glurge, begrudge, garbage, grunge, engage, disgorge and 24 more...
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transportation
change, car, vehicle, cart, baggage, waiting room, ticket, bicycle, life jacket, railway, shared taxi, ferry and 27 more...
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-age
condition; result of; account; number of; cost of; place of; collection of; home of; to act
marriage, acreage, postage, steerage, peerage, hermitage, forage, Hermitage, pilgrimage, baggage, blockage, carnage and 24 more...

Yukka "Lately Puppetji has been reminded of the weight of the world on people's shoulders, the baggage we all carry with us from house to house, city to city, relationship to relationship, lifetime to lifetime. These illusory burdens we all carry ... This clutter that fills your mind."
(http://puppetji.com/2010/02/new-socksang-travel-light-and-let-go-of-baggage/) Aug 9, 2011
mercy According to a few online dictionaries, 'baggage' is also an "immoral" or "impudent" woman, or a prostitute.
The Free Dictionary (but not Merriam Webster) is one that lists this definition. Jul 6, 2008