shopping-bag lady
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of shopping-bag lady
First recorded in 1975–80
Example Sentences
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Whether you're a gambling gourmet, a day-tripper or a shopping-bag lady that frequents the outlets: odds are good one place or the other has what you're hungry for.
From Seattle Times
When she died at age 83 in "Maryhouse," a residence for the destitute on New York City's Lower East Side, she was living in a small room next door to a shopping-bag lady.
From Time Magazine Archive
He stumbles into a decrepit old shopping-bag lady in New York who turns out to be his sweetheart from Harvard days.
From Time Magazine Archive
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