handbag

A person holding a handbag.

Meanings

Noun

  • A small bag used by women (or sometimes by men) for carrying various small personal items.
  • , a subgenre of house music of the late 1980s, often with booming vocals.

Verb

  • To attack verbally or subject to criticism, typically used of a woman.

Origin

  • From hand + bag. The music genre is named from women dancing around a pile of their handbags in nightclubs. The verb is a reference to Margaret Thatcher's handbag.

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