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duffel bag

noun

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

duffel bag

a cylindrical drawstring canvas bag, originally used esp by sailors for carrying personal articles

An Americanism dating back to 1915–20

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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