CARRIER BAG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carrier bag mean? 

• CARRIER BAG (noun)
  The noun CARRIER BAG has 1 sense:

1. a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases

  Familiarity information: CARRIER BAG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARRIER BAG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

carrier bag; paper bag; poke; sack

Hypernyms ("carrier bag" is a kind of...):

bag (a flexible container with a single opening)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "carrier bag"):

doggie bag; doggy bag (a bag for food that a customer did not eat at a restaurant; the transparent pretense is that the food is taken home to feed the customer's dog)

grocery bag (a sack for holding customer's groceries)