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handbags

/ ˈhændˌbæɡz /

plural noun

  1. facetious.
    an incident in which people, esp sportsmen, fight or threaten to fight, but without real intent to inflict harm (esp in the phrases handbags at dawn, handbags at twenty paces, etc)


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