shopping-bag lady
noun
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shopping-bag lady
American
[shop-ing-bag]
/ ˈʃɒp ɪŋˌbæg /
noun
shopping bag lady
British
noun
Etymology
Origin of shopping-bag lady
First recorded in 1975–80
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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.
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