Associations to the word «Handbag»

Pictures for the word «Handbag»

Wiktionary

HANDBAG, noun. (mainly Commonwealth) A small bag used by women (or sometimes by men) for carrying various small personal items.
HANDBAG, noun. (uncountable) An anthemic subgenre of house music of the late 1980s, often with booming vocals.
HANDBAG, verb. (British) (transitive) (humorous) Figuratively, to hit with a handbag; to attack verbally or subject to criticism (used originally of Margaret Thatcher).

Dictionary definition

HANDBAG, noun. A container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women); "she reached into her bag and found a comb".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne