bagman

Other forms of bagman

plural

bagmans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bagman

What does bagman mean?

bagman means "a salesman who travels to call on customers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bagman?

bagman has 2 syllables: bag-man. The stress falls on "bag". In IPA it is /ˈbæɡmən/.

What is another word for bagman?

Close synonyms include traveling salesman, travelling salesman, commercial traveler, commercial traveller, roadman. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bagman a common word?

bagman is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.