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Definition: Paper Bag |
Paper BagNoun1. A bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Paper BagSynonyms: carrier bag (n), poke (n), sack (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Paper Bag |
| English words defined with "paper bag": carrier bag ♦ poke ♦ sack, shopping bag ♦ tea bag. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "paper bag": BOTTOMING-MACHINE OPERATOR, brown paper bag bug, brown-paper-bag bug ♦ CAKE DECORATOR, COATING-MACHINE OPERATOR II, COLOR-PRINTER OPERATOR ♦ handkerchief ironer ♦ INSPECTOR-REPAIRER ♦ LAUNDRY-BAG-PUNCH OPERATOR ♦ pastry decorator, PRESSER, HANDKERCHIEF ♦ SEWING-MACHINE OPERATOR, PAPER BAGS, SLEEVER, SPOTTER, PHOTOGRAPHIC, STEEL-TIE ADJUSTER, AUTOMATIC, stem bag ♦ tamping bag, tin-tie-machine operator, automatic, TRAWL NET MAKER, tube maker, TUBE-MACHINE OPERATOR, tube-making-machine operator ♦ VALVING-MACHINE OPERATOR. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "paper bag": Etiquette. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Supposedly he's got a laywer with $25,000 in a brown paper bag. (All the President's Men; writing credit: Carl Bernstein; Bob Woodward) Neal Pert couldn't drum his way out of a paper bag! (Freaks and Geeks; writing credit: Paul Feig; Judd Apatow) | |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Al took a paper bag from the seat. |
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Expression using "paper bag": brown paper bag bug. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
paper bag | 409 |
paper bag puppet | 55 |
kraft paper bag | 13 |
white paper bag | 13 |
printed paper bag | 11 |
paper bag luminaries | 8 |
colored paper bag | 4 |
brown kraft paper bag | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "paper bag"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | كيس من ورق, كيس ورقي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кесия (pocket, pouch, purse, scrip, wash-cloth), плик (cover, envelope). (various references) | |
Danish | papirsaek (paper sack). (various references) | |
Dutch | papieren zak (paper sack). (various references) | |
Finnish | paperipussi. (various references) | |
French | sac en papier (paper sack). (various references) | |
German | Papiersack (paper sack), tüte (bag, breathalyzer, cone, cornet, horn, packet, paperbag, paper-bag, pint, poke). (various references) | |
Greek | χάρτινη σακούλα, χάρτινος σάκος, χαρτοσακούλα. (various references) | |
Hungarian | papírzacskó (grocery bag). (various references) | |
Italian | sacco di carta (paper sack). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 紙袋 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かみぶくろ. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aperpay agbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | saco de papel (paper clip, paper sack), forrar a papel. (various references) | |
Romanian | pungã de hârtie (paper). (various references) | |
Spanish | bolsa de papel (paper sack). (various references) | |
Swedish | papperssäck (paper sack). (various references) | |
Turkish | kesekâğıdı (sack). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Paper Bag" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: paperbag. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-g-p-p-r" | |
-2 letters: appear, grappa. | |
-3 letters: agape, barge, gaper, grape, pager, paper, parae, parge. | |
-4 letters: agar, ager, aper, area, bare, bear, berg, brae, brag, gape, garb, gear, grab, page, papa, para, pare, peag, pear, perp, prep, raga, rage, rape, reap, repp. | |
-5 letters: aba, aga, age, ape, arb, are, baa, bag, bap, bar, beg, bra, ear, era, erg, gab, gae, gap, gar, pap, par, pea, peg, pep, per, rag, rap, reb, reg, rep. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-g-p-p-r" | |
+2 letters: propagable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 70 65 72 42 61 67 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01110000 01100101 01110010 00100000 01000010 01100001 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a p e r   B a g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0070 0065 0072 0042 0061 0067 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50678271842366773 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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