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handbag::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bag, pocketbook, purse |
| Type of | container |
| Has types | clutch, clutch bag, etui, evening bag, reticule, shoulder bag |
Examples of handbag
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It's looking like handbag design is the natural next step for bitter ex-ho-bags.
From the ocregister.com
The woman who carries this Marc by Marc Jacobs handbag appreciates the classics.
From the freep.com
Barbara Lee, white witch I like a wide handbag, because I need to carry my wand.
From the irishtimes.com
Her business was a high end handbag line but needed $200K to start the business.
From the gothamgal.com
Whatever disasters befall her family she has just what they need in her handbag.
From the guardian.co.uk
This patent Rampage handbag has several inside compartments and a zipper pocket.
From the courier-journal.com
If you can't afford a designer handbag, treat your mum to an edible one instead.
From the metro.co.uk
My wife's handbag, including items showing our address and car keys, was stolen.
From the guardian.co.uk
It means you can drop your keys in your handbag and never have to fish them out.
From the au.news.yahoo.com
- Bag: a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women); "she reached into her bag and found a comb"
- A handbag or purse in American English, is a medium to large bag, that is often fashionably designed, typically used by women, and used to hold personal items such as wallet/coins, keys, gloves, cosmetics, a hairbrush, cellular device or personal digital assistant, feminine hygiene products, etc.
- A small bag used by women (or sometimes by men) for carrying various small personal items; (transitive, humorous) Figuratively, to hit with a handbag; to attack verbally or subject to criticism (used originally of Margaret Thatcher)
- (handbags) Said jocularly in response to a particularly derogatory, bitchy or catty dialogue; calm down; cool it
- (Handbags) a colloquialism, especially in the United Kingdom, used to describe an event where two or more players from opposing teams square up to each other in a threatening manner, or push and jostle each other in an attempt to assert themselves, without any actual violent conduct taking place.^67
- (Handbags) A very important accessory.
- (Handbags) Reference to any fighting, shoving, or slapping between two players that may or may not result in a red card
- (Handbags) The particular style of football fight where players put on their meanest faces, puff out their cheeks and . . . push each other once or twice (sometimes near the face). ...
- Money, late 20th century.
