Handbag

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  • noun. A woman's purse.
  • noun. A piece of small hand luggage.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • A bag for small articles, carried in the hand in traveling or shopping.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. a small bag usually made of cloth, leather or a similar imitation material, and often having a strap to permit carrying it by slinging it over a shoulder, used by women to carry money and small personal items or accessories.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A small bag used by women (or sometimes by men) for carrying various small personal items.
  • noun. An anthemic subgenre of house music of the late 1980s, often with booming vocals.
  • verb. (transitive, humorous) Figuratively, to hit with a handbag; to attack verbally or subject to criticism (used originally of Margaret Thatcher).
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)
    • Word Usage
    "Jenny, on the term handbag versus purse or bag, you might be interested in this."
    Form
    man-bag  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    container  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    clutch  clutch bag  evening bag  man-bag  murse  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    sandbag  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Gladstone  backpack  beret  briefcase  earring  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Gladstone  Gladstone bag  bag  cachet  carpetbag  
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