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toolbags

toolbags is the plural of toolbag.

Meaning of toolbag

Noun

toolbag (plural toolbags)

  1. A bag used to carry tools.
    • The mundane reality is that many art thieves are simply not the sharpest grappling hooks in the toolbag; the smart ones choose to steal things that can be much more easily converted into money — or just money itself.2008 February 17, Randy Kennedy, “Where You Going With That Monet?”, in New York Times
  2. (Canada, US, derogatory, slang) A tool or jerk; an obnoxious person.
    • Leighton Greene, Star Spanked
      “Sorry for being such a total toolbag,” Tristan whispered when I gave the empty bottle back to him.

Questions about toolbags

What is toolbags the plural of?
Toolbags is the plural of toolbag.

Words near toolbags in the dictionary

  1. Toolamba West
  2. Toolan
  3. Toolangi
  4. Toolans
  5. toolbag
  6. toolbags
  7. toolbar
  8. toolbars
  9. toolbelt
  10. toolbelts
  11. toolbox

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