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bag lady

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bag lady
n. Slang
A homeless woman, especially one in a big city, who carries her possessions with her, as in a shopping bag.

bag lady
n
a woman who is homeless and wanders city streets with all her possessions in shopping bags Also called (in full) shopping bag lady
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.bag ladybag lady - a homeless woman who carries all her possessions with her in shopping bags
homeless, homeless person - someone unfortunate without housing; "a homeless was found murdered in Central Park"
Translations
bag lady
nStadtstreicherin f (die ihre gesamte Habe in Einkaufstaschen mit sich führt)
bag lady n (fam) → stracciona, barbona
bag lady n (fam) → stracciona, barbona


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Mugged and left for dead on the rail bed, he is rescued and slowly nursed back to health by a mysterious bag lady.
Work all my life, sometime two, three jobs, since I was seventeen, and here I am, still a bag lady.
Also putting in appearances were Tomlin alter egos Judith Beasley, 6-year-old wise child Edith Ann and Trudy the bag lady (lifted directly from Tomlin's ``The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe'') contemplating the benefits of a reality-detached mind and waiting for her extraterrestrial friends.
 
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