Bagman

a commercial traveller. This word is used more in reference to the old style of commercial travellers than to the present. Bags , trousers. Trousers of an extensive pattern, or exaggerated fashion, have sometimes been termed HOWLING-BAGS , but only when the style has been very “loud.” The word is probably an abbreviation of bumbags. “To have the BAGS off,” to be of age and one’s own master, to have plenty of money. Bags of mystery is another phrase in frequent use, and refers to sausages and saveloys. Bag of tricks , refers to the whole of a means towards a result. “That’s the whole bag of tricks.”