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carrierbag

carrierbag is the alternative form 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

Forms of carrierbag

pluralcarrierbags

Questions about carrierbag

What is carrierbag the alternative form of?
Carrierbag is the alternative form of carrier bag.

Words near carrierbag in the dictionary

  1. carrier shells
  2. carrier wave
  3. carrier waves
  4. carrier-pigeon
  5. carrier-pigeons
  6. carrierbag
  7. carrierbags
  8. Carriere
  9. Carrieres
  10. carriers
  11. carriership

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