Bag/ baggies/bags/bags of
<p>Bag meaning to shoot game and put it in a bag dates from the 15th century and is the origin of the expression 'in the bag', meaning a successful outcome of anything, which dates from the late 19th/early 20th century. Bags as in the expression, ‘bags I go first’, which indicates a wish or desire to do something, derives from the same sense of bagging something i.e. putting something into a bag, and therefore being successful, but dates from the early 19th century. 'Bags of' in the sense of 'lots of' dates from the late 17th century, from the allusion to whatever quantity of anything one can put or carry in a bag. Bag meaning an unattractive woman dates from the early 20th century, an abbreviation of baggage, which is an old word for a worthless strumpet, dating from the late 1500s. Bags is colloquial for trousers and dates from the mid-19th century. Baggies, as in loose-fitting swimming or surfing trunks dates from the 1970s. Bag in the sense of a special interest or pastime as in, ‘classical music is my bag’ dates from the mid-20th century and is originally Black American slang that became popular during the 1960s. See also Holding the bag/baby.</p>