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messages
noun
shopping; hence, message bag, shopping bag UK: SCOTLAND, 1911
Dialect.- If I could buy this high at Viccy wines, I’d have a half bottle in my message bag every day! — Ian Pattison, Rab C. Nesbitt, 1988
▶ do the messages
to go on a small local shopping trip AUSTRALIA, 1902- When she was down the road doing the messages, Mumma often went up and picked up the earphones, holding them at arm’s length, and bending her neck towards them like a flamingo[.] — Ruth Park, Poor Man’s Orange, p. 95, 1949
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