baggy
Americanadjective
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baggier,
comparative
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baggiest
superlative
adjective
noun
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Etymology
Origin of baggy
Explanation
Baggy clothes are loose-fitting. Sometimes kids wear their pants so baggy that their legs look like toothpicks in a lunch bag. It’s easy to hide in baggy clothes, and they’re usually really comfy. The adjective baggy describes oversized or roomy clothes. A baggy t-shirt and ripped-up pants probably isn't the ideal outfit for a job interview. You can also talk about baggy skin — you might say that your friend's baggy eyes betray the fact that he stayed up late finishing his English paper. Baggy comes from bag, with its Old Norse root, baggi.
Example Sentences
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The company had been highlighting its still-popular baggy jeans before changing direction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The women’s business remained a bright spot, benefiting from demand for baggy jeans and the company’s push beyond denim.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Much of the audience looks like clones of the star rapper, dressed in extremely oversized white tees, baggy denim, thick gold chains, tilted snapbacks and white-framed sunglasses with words written across the lenses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Women in headscarves and long coats share the sidewalk with groups of young men and women in baggy jeans with body piercings and tattoos.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026
Standing five foot two, with his baggy suits and gap-toothed smile, he was used to being underestimated.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
Over the years, the company has embraced baggier fits, jorts, western-wear trends, lighter-weight pants and pants with moisture control in an effort to reignite demand from consumers battling higher living costs.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 29, 2026
I still have the shorts, faded and baggier.
From Slate ● Mar. 18, 2025
While baggier hems are more popular, Turner Allen, 31, a stylist, suggests wearing a pant that skims the top of the shoe: in denim he suggests a quarter- or half-break.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2024
Fans on social media have debated the new Lola, who wears a longer and baggier jersey.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2021
The boys were soaked, their jean shorts now baggier than normal.
From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds
He was joined on stage by the song's producer, Mustard, who clutched a football while sporting the world's baggiest jeans - before Lamar pointed an imaginary remote control at the camera and intoned, "Game Over".
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2025
And not just any T-shirt and cargo shorts, but what could seem like the baggiest, most stretched out, most slept in, most consciously unflattering T-shirts and shorts; the most unkempt bed-head.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
Then the mug of hot oatmeal and the donning of the baggiest, fuzziest — and, thus, comfiest — lounge pants I own.
From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2020
Some of the cut material bobbed up in later work, in The Songlines, his baggiest and probably most famous book, and in On the Black Hill.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 24, 2017
She reappears in ratty sweatpants and the baggiest sweater I’ve ever seen, plops down in her desk chair, and shoots knives at me from her honey-colored eyes.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
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