handbags

British  

/ 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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Example Sentences

To connect with Gen Z, some salespeople have social-media feeds saved on their tablets to show shoppers how influencers are styling the brands’ luxury handbags.

From The Wall Street Journal

Visitors will be allowed to take small handbags, as long as they are no larger than A4 in size.

From BBC

Lou lived and breathed like a celebrity but made a career selling handbags.

From The Wall Street Journal

Zhuanzhuan, which runs hundreds of small resale counters across the country, opened an enormous warehouse-like store in Beijing last year selling everything from gaming equipment to handbags.

From Barron's

But that novel was published in 1922, well before the dawn of websites and apps to rent everything from homes to handbags.

From The Wall Street Journal