wagger-pagger-bagger UK /ˌwæɡə ˌpæɡə ˈbæɡə/US /ˌwæɡəɹ ˌpæɡəɹ ˈbæɡəɹ/ noun1 •(slang, old-fashioned) A wastepaper basket.Waste-paper baskets – (I remember certain earnest youths at Oxford who used to call them wagger-pagger-baggers) – are to Philip Guedalla one of the most essential perquisites of the man of letters. — 1927 formswagger-pagger-baggers