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