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paper-bag

paper-bag is the alternative form of paper bag.

Meaning of paper bag

Noun

paper bag (plural paper bags)

  1. A bag made of paper, especially a firm brown kind intended for carrying groceries.
    • Does his make-up in his room
      Douse himself with cheap perfume
      Eyeholes in a paper bag
      Greatest lay I ever had1996, Placebo, “Nancy Boy”

Forms of paper-bag

pluralpaper-bags

Origin of paper-bag

From paper + bag.

Questions about paper-bag

What is paper-bag the alternative form of?
Paper-bag is the alternative form of paper bag.

Words near paper-bag in the dictionary

  1. paper wasps
  2. paper work
  3. paper works
  4. paper yabber
  5. paper yabbers
  6. paper-bag
  7. paper-bags
  8. paper-based
  9. paper-bound
  10. paper-chase
  11. paper-chases

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paper-bag (page history and authors); paper bag (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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