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hot water bags

hot water bags is the plural of hot water bag.

Meaning of hot water bag

Noun

hot water bag (plural hot water bags)

  1. (dated) A hot water bottle.
    • Nothing is more comfortable, nothing, I should say, more indispensable, than a hot-water bag,—or rather, two hot-water bags; for they will burst sometimes, as I found out, and a passenger who has become intimate with one of these warm bosom friends feels its loss almost as if it were human.1887, Oliver Wendell Holmes, chapter 1, in Our Hundred Days in Europe, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 20

Questions about hot water bags

What is hot water bags the plural of?
Hot water bags is the plural of hot water bag.

Words near hot water bags in the dictionary

  1. hot wars
  2. hot wash
  3. hot washes
  4. hot water
  5. hot water bag
  6. hot water bags
  7. hot water bottle
  8. hot water bottle rash
  9. hot water bottles
  10. hot water can
  11. hot water cans

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