luggage
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Explanation
Luggage is anything you use to carry your things with you on a trip. If you're backpacking across Asia, your only luggage is the pack on your back. Suitcases are luggage, and if you pack a trunk full of gifts to bring your family in India, that's luggage too. When you arrive at an airport after a flight, you might have to wait a while to pick up your checked luggage. Luggage comes from lug, or "drag," the way you sometimes have to lug your luggage onto a train or bus.
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At the instant of detonation, an exhausted Dickman was drifting in and out of sleep, his feet resting on luggage.
From Slate • Jul. 7, 2026
On the Afghan side of the Torkham border crossing, children and adults wheeled their luggage or carried belongings atop their heads, as they moved from desk to desk to log their arrival.
From Barron's • Jul. 3, 2026
"I think the direct flights cut time and there is no risk of missed connections and the stress of your luggage being lost," she tells the BBC.
From BBC • Jun. 26, 2026
The image showed the bag — complete with a luggage tag resembling a ranch dressing bottle — placed in an airport security screening bin along with other travel essentials.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2026
“That is, somebody lost them. They’re gone. They weren’t there in the pile of luggage from the ship. One of my skirts was really cute too! And Akira had a baseball jacket.”
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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