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Name given to a genre of UK bands in the late 1980s who occasionally fused guitar-based '60s-style indie music with modern dance rhythms and "funky drummer" drumbeats.
Most notable baggy members were "Madchester" bands like The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays, but the tag was mainly used for the slightly later bands that they influenced like Inspiral Carpets, The Charlatens, Blur (circa 'Leisure'), James (circa 'Gold Mother'), Five Thirty, The High, Flowered Up, Candy Flip and others.
Distinguishable by their lolloping, psychedelic-tinged sounds, pudding bowl haircuts and huge 21" flares (from which the name "baggy" derived), the scene lasted only a short while, roughly from 1989 to 1990, but served as a prototype to the more conventional sounds of Britpop, a few years later.
The baggy sound of 1990: British Madchester bands not from Manchester?
baggy by dielo April 16, 2006
A small airtight plastic-bag containing Marihuana.
Shit my mom's coming home, put the shit back in the baggy and hide it
baggy by ninja_monkey July 4, 2006
A girl that get's around, hence her 'baggy' vagina.
guy: i shagged that baggy, it was like putting my finger in a cup!!!
Baggy by j papi October 6, 2009
A person you'd have to put a bag over their face to have sex with.
Chris: Dude, Daisy's body is so hot.
Alex: Yeah, but her face is so ugly.
Chris: You're right. She's a Baggy
Baggy by kris_d_mac February 7, 2010
man that is one baggy spliff
baggy by baggy May 27, 2007
The best people in the world. Usually seen wearing massve baggy trousers, hence the name. 90 percent of baggy boys are sex gods. Not Rory though. Sworn enemies of chav-kind
Chav:"You baggy, get some decent clothes"
Baggy:"Fuck off you chav"
baggy by A. Nono Mouse February 22, 2004