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Blighty bags

Blighty bags is the plural of Blighty bag.

Meaning of Blighty bag

Noun

Blighty bag (plural Blighty bags)

  1. (slang) A small bag that holds a wounded soldier's personal effects and accompanies him to hospital.
    • Carrie May Hall: "Tell the women to make 'Blighty' bags!1991, Dorothy Schneider, Carl J. Schneider, Into the breach: American women overseas in World War I, page 298

Questions about Blighty bags

What is Blighty bags the plural of?
Blighty bags is the plural of Blighty bag.

Words near Blighty bags in the dictionary

  1. blights
  2. blightscape
  3. blightscapes
  4. blighty
  5. Blighty bag
  6. Blighty bags
  7. Blighty one
  8. Blighty ones
  9. Blighty wound
  10. Blighty wounds
  11. Blijenberg

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