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she-bagging

she-bagging noun: the practice of women reserving seats in public transport by means of placing bags upon them.

Noun

she-bagging (uncountable)

  1. The practice of women reserving seats in public transport by means of placing bags upon them.
    • Dear @TorontoStar, I'll see your Man-Spreading, and raise you one She-Bagging.2014 December 29, Josh Young (@_joshyoung), Twitter
    • Wait - so "manspreading" is the issue? Not "shebagging"? #manspreading more like #shebagging2015 January 29, Timbo (@joshuetree), Twitter

Examples of she-bagging in a sentence

  • If you’re alone and feeling vulnerable on public transport, I don’t blame women for “she-bagging”.2015 June 28, Sophie Warnes, “On “manspreading” & “she-bagging””, in Medium, archived from the original on 25 May 2022:
  • Man-spreading and she-bagging means you are stealing an extra seat that you don’t need.2016 March 14, Brooke Lloyd, “Public Transport Etiquette 101”, in On Dit, Adelaide University Union, page 21:
  • It’s important to make the gender traceable point that she-bagging (women with endless bags spread out across train seats and floors) is not the female equivalent to manspreading.2016 May, Charlie Bauer Phd, “Charlie Says”, in Gscene, page 56:
  • Auch Frauen haben eine Marotte entwickelt, die im Englischen unter dem Namen She-Bagging bekannt ist.2019, Christian Koch, Axel Krohn, Hä? Die schönsten unübersetzbaren Wörter der Welt … und andere Sprachkuriositäten (in German), Goldmann...

Forms of she-bagging

alternative formshebagging

Origin of she-bagging

From she- + bagging.

Questions about she-bagging

What does she-bagging mean?
She-bagging means the practice of women reserving seats in public transport by means of placing bags upon them.
How do you use she-bagging in a sentence?
If you’re alone and feeling vulnerable on public transport, I don’t blame women for “she-bagging”.
What part of speech is she-bagging?
She-bagging is a noun.

Words near she-bagging in the dictionary

  1. she-apes
  2. she-ass
  3. she-asses
  4. she-bagger
  5. she-baggers
  6. she-bagging
  7. she-bear
  8. she-bears
  9. she-bitch
  10. she-bitches
  11. she-buffalo

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