plastic bag

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A plastic bag is the light throwaway carrier a shop packs your things in. Thin, handled, and it splits at the worst moment.

It has become a symbol of the whole waste problem, and charging for one has cut use dramatically wherever it has been tried. The bag for life is the sturdier reusable answer, though most households now have a drawer full of them. A plastic bag takes centuries to break down and never really disappears, only becoming smaller pieces. Bin liners are the one use nobody has replaced.

Definitions of plastic bag

1phraseplastic bagA light disposable carrier bag made of plastic.A2
“She carried the shopping home in a plastic bag.”

Practised in Shopping & Money, A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 4 of A Man Called Ove.

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plastic bag

phraseA2Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

A plastic bag is the light throwaway carrier a shop packs your things in. Thin, handled, and it splits at the worst moment.

Definitions of plastic bag

1phraseplastic bagA light disposable carrier bag made of plastic.A2
“She carried the shopping home in a plastic bag.”

Practised in Shopping & Money, A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 4 of A Man Called Ove.

Practise this word