shopping bag

noun

1. a strong, usually paper or plastic, bag with handles, used to carry purchases or belongings.

Word History and Origins

Origin of shopping bag¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

A man carried his shopping bags outside, loaded his bread and other items into the back seat of his Buick and started to drive away.

From Washington Post

Seven years after the theft, he discovered the small panel painting wrapped in parcel paper and stowed in a plastic shopping bag at a bus stop in west London.

From Washington Post

On the drive, the emir would stop to hand commanders fistfuls of cash from the shopping bag under Padnos’ jump seat.

From Time

As time went on, the space filled with countless shopping bags and bins full of items with no obvious home elsewhere in the house.

From Washington Post

The robots bring these items to a “pick station,” where in most cases, a human worker assembles each customer’s order, packing it into shopping bags for delivery.

From Fortune

When one commuter stands to leave, a businessman outpaces a woman hauling a sizable shopping bag.

From The Daily Beast

In another, fashion photographer Juergen Teller discusses how he and Marc Jacobs decided to shoot Beckham inside a shopping bag.

From The Daily Beast

If you respond to the offer, the wine goes into your shopping bag, which is delivered twice a year during cool weather.

From The Daily Beast

Watch Ryan Gosling in New York City, shopping bag in hand, as peacemaker.

From The Daily Beast

At Woodbury Common, Shteir sees a “booster bag,” a purse or shopping bag designed for stealing, that had been seized by guards.

From The Daily Beast

She'd never come to my apartments with a cat-o'-nine-tails under her golf cape, or a bottle of acid in her shopping bag.

From Project Gutenberg

Meanwhile James Mandeville investigated her shopping bag with absorbed interest.

From Project Gutenberg

Mrs. Dunny was walking towards the lobby with an old paper shopping bag under her arm.

From Project Gutenberg

I stood for a moment looking at the group and fingering the handle of my shopping-bag nervously.

From Project Gutenberg

Aunt Martha opened her shopping bag, and fumbled in it with her old fingers.

From Project Gutenberg