: the area in an airport where arriving passengers pick up their checked baggage
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Travelers waiting hours stuck in lines snaking through baggage claim and outside the terminal building have been featured on television and splashed across the internet.—Emma Hurt, AJC.com, 27 Mar. 2026 To accommodate the mass of passengers, the line snakes through baggage claim and around the terminal.—Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2026 Videos posted to social media showed lines at LaGuardia Airport snaking through terminals and into baggage claim areas early Wednesday morning.—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2026 Lines there snaked up three floors, starting in the basement's subway corridor before passing through the baggage claim area.—Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for baggage claim