handbag
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /ˈhændˌbæɡ/, /ˈhæm.bəɡ/
handbag (plural handbags)
- (mainly Commonwealth) A small bag used by women (or sometimes by men) for carrying various small personal items.
- (uncountable) An subgenre of house music of the late 1980s, often with booming vocals.
- 2006, Andy Bennett, Barry Shank, Jason Toynbee, The Popular Music Studies Reader, Psychology Press ISBN 9780415307109, page 102
- Who else would lug around that uptight feminine appendage, that burdensome emblem of adulthood — the handbag? ... The music genre had even come to be called 'handbag house'. As one clubber explained to ...
- 2006, Andy Bennett, Barry Shank, Jason Toynbee, The Popular Music Studies Reader, Psychology Press ISBN 9780415307109, page 102
- (bag used by women) purse (North American)
- (subgenre of house music) diva house, handbag house
- French: sac à main, (Belgium) sacoche
- German: Handtasche
- Italian: borsetta
- Portuguese: bolsa (Brazil), mala (Portugal)
- Russian: су́мочка
- Spanish: (Mexico) bolsa, (Spain) bolso, (Southeastern Mexico) bulto, (Latin America) cartera
handbag (handbags, present participle handbagging; past and past participle handbagged)
- (British, transitive, humorous) Figuratively, to hit with a handbag; to attack verbally or subject to criticism (used of Margaret Thatcher). attn en
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