HANDBAG
bag, handbag, pocketbook, purse
(noun) a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women); “she reached into her bag and found a comb”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
handbag (plural handbags)
(mainly Commonwealth) A small bag used by women (or sometimes by men) for carrying various small personal items.
(uncountable) An subgenre of house music of the late 1980s, often with booming vocals.
Synonyms
• (bag used by women): purse (North American)
• (subgenre of house music): diva house, handbag house
Hyponyms
• man-bag, murse
Verb
handbag (third-person singular simple present handbags, present participle handbagging, simple past and past participle handbagged)
(British, transitive, humorous) Figuratively, to hit with a handbag; to attack verbally or subject to criticism (used of Margaret Thatcher).
Source: Wiktionary
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