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duffel bag

noun

  1. a large, cylindrical bag, especially of canvas, for carrying personal belongings, orginally used by military personnel.


duffel bag

noun

  1. a cylindrical drawstring canvas bag, originally used esp by sailors for carrying personal articles
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of duffel bag1

An Americanism dating back to 1915–20
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Example Sentences

They dumped the contents of duffel bags, backpacks and plastic bins onto the beds.

A dumbbell, kettlebell, or even a loaded duffel bag or suitcase will work.

By the time I got to Germany, I had only one backpack and a duffel bag.

From Ozy

She brought a duffel bag, the clothes she was wearing and little else to a place that was almost entirely new to her.

They picked up a duffel bag of $600,000, the largest ransom ever paid at that point, and promised to return the boy safely to his family.

Within a navy blue duffel bag were clattering bone-hued beads, amulets, and bracelets.

A man walked into a Georgia school with an AK-47 and a duffel bag full of ammunition.

He had a small duffel bag full of his personal belongings when he was flown to France.

His mother would come back from overseas trips with a duffel bag stuffed with research, which he would dutifully carry upstairs.

Burgess later told authorities he stuffed her body in a duffel bag and tossed it into the sea.

"Have a clean pair in your duffel bag; then you won't have to go home for 'em, 'Rion," advised Tunis.

He grinned and carefully folded his tattered peasant clothes and put them in the duffel bag.

Inside the duffel bag Dave found his prize: a spare uniform of the owner, who was perhaps dead or maybe hundreds of miles away.

He fumbled through the rest of the duffel bag in the hope of finding the officer's Luger.

When you return from a trip, turn your duffel bag upside down on the floor.

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