noun
- trunks, suitcases, etc., used in traveling; luggage.
- the portable equipment of an army.
- things that encumber one’s freedom, progress, development, or adaptability; impediments: intellectual baggage that keeps one from thinking clearly; neurotic conflicts that arise from struggling with too much emotional baggage.
- Archaic.
- a worthless woman.
- a prostitute or disreputable woman.
- Often Disparaging.a pert, playful young woman or girl: a pretty baggage; a saucy baggage.
noun
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- suitcases, bags, etc, packed for a journey; luggage
- mainly US and Canadian(as modifier)baggage car
- an army’s portable equipment
- informal, old-fashioned
- a pert young woman
- an immoral woman or prostitute
- Irish informal a cantankerous old woman
- informal previous knowledge and experience that a person may use or be influenced by in new circumstancescultural baggage
mid-15c., “portable equipment of an army; plunder, loot,” from Old French bagage “baggage, (military) equipment” (14c.), from bague “pack, bundle, sack,” ultimately from the same Scandinavian source that yielded bag (n.). Baggage-smasher (1851) was American English slang for “railway porter.”