baggagenoun/ˈbæɡɪd͡ʒ/

• 1

  Portable cases, large bags, and similar equipment for manually carrying, pushing, or pulling personal items while traveling

  • Please put your baggage in the trunk.
  • As soon as they had determined on their course, Ya-nei slid under the bed, and made himself a place among the baggages.
• 2

  informalFactors, especially psychological ones, which interfere with a person's ability to function effectively.

  • This person has got a lot of emotional baggage.
  • […]How much shall I honour one, who has a stronger propensity to poetry, and has got a greater name in it, if he performs his promise to me of putting away these idle baggages after his sacred espousal.
• 3

  derogatoryobsoleteA woman. A female, especially one who is saucy, impudent.

  • "Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch! I tell thee what: get thee to church o’ Thursday, Or never after look me in the face. Speak not; reply not; do not answer me."
  • Betty and Molly (they were soft-hearted baggages) felt for their master--pitied their poor master!
• 4

  governmentmilitarypoliticsAn army's portable equipment; its baggage train.

  • Friedrich decides to go down the River; he himself to Lowen, perhaps near twenty miles farther down, but where there is a Bridge and Highway leading over; Prince Leopold, with the heavier divisions and baggages, to Michelau, some miles nearer, and there to build his Pontoons and cross.
  • In Poland, for example, the unknown Bolesław Bierut, who appeared in 1944 in the baggage of the Red Army, and who played a prominent role as a ‘non-party figure’ in the Lublin Committee, turned out to be a Soviet employee formerly working for the Comintern.