shopping bag

noun

: a bag (as of strong paper) that has handles and is intended for carrying purchases

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Soaring green mountains encircled the glittering, fjord-like inlet, and the bronzed and the beautiful streamed past our car clutching Dior and Bulgari shopping bags. Siobhan Reid, Travel + Leisure, 22 May 2025 Carrie, fresh from another retail therapy session, is lugging deep-plum Jimmy Choo shopping bags. Megan O'Sullivan, Vogue, 21 May 2025 Joy Ramos, operations manager of Bear Brothers Cleaning in Alabama, shares her top ideas for reusing shopping bags. Stacey Lastoe, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2025 On the shelf above, a contemporary shopping bag from a Loewe store was being kept for posterity. Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for shopping bag

Word History

First Known Use

1849, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of shopping bag was in 1849

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“Shopping bag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shopping%20bag. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.

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