refugee bag

refugee bag
 n.— «The looks you get holding one of these plastic bags—i-bags as me & josiah call them now, avoiding the name cedric nash gave them awhile ago—you know those bags that you see people holding when they cross a border point, fleeing their country, refugee bags then in fact rather than immigrant bags.» —“Brighton Bound” by longcat Thoughts of a Longcat (London, England) Sept. 2, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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