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carrier bags

carrier bags is the plural of carrier bag.

Meaning of carrier bag

Noun

carrier bag (plural carrier bags)

  1. (UK) A bag made of thin polythene or paper, generally used for carrying groceries or other purchased items.
    • “Something for everybody!” Gerald Fedden said, striding into the kitchen with a rattling brown-paper carrier bag.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 2, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN

Questions about carrier bags

What is carrier bags the plural of?
Carrier bags is the plural of carrier bag.

Words near carrier bags in the dictionary

  1. carried water for
  2. carried weight
  3. Carriegate
  4. carrier
  5. carrier bag
  6. carrier bags
  7. carrier cycle
  8. carrier cycles
  9. carrier gas
  10. carrier gases
  11. carrier hotel

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