Chicken Sandwich
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- Jun 20, 2010
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- Russian
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- Russian Federation
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- Netherlands
How about this? Why don't you just bag school and we'll go catch a movie.
Bag is defined as (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English):
bag 2 verb ( past tense and past participle bagged , present participle bagging ) [ transitive ]
1 to put things into bags : He got a job bagging groceries.
2 informal to manage to get something that a lot of people want : Try to bag a couple of seats at the front.
3 British English informal to score a goal or a point in sport : Larsson bagged his thirtieth goal of the season in Celtic’s win.
4 especially British English informal to kill or catch an animal or bird : We bagged a rabbit.
5 be bagged and zip-tied if prisoners are bagged and zip-tied, bags are put over their heads and their hands are tied together
bag something ↔ up phrasal verb especially British English
to put things into bags : We bagged up the money before we closed the shop.
To bag school here means "to skip school". But home come this meaning isn't in the dictionary? Isn't this a non-standard way to say to skip school? Or is this American slang?