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old bag
noun- an unattractive or unloveable old woman UK, 1949
Disparaging; possibly a variant of OLD BATOLD BAT- I had to get the old bag on the end of a string, which I found was only too easy in fact it was a doddle. — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 111, 1958
- An old bag, minus a nose, was drinking quietly in a dirty little entry off Hanbury Street. — Geoffrey Fletcher, Down Among the Meths Men, p. 54, 1966
- [of Margaret Thatcher] That’s really bad luck isn’t it? To have two personalities and for both of them to be rancid old bags. — Mark Steel, Reasons to be Cheerful, p. 206, 2001
- an elderly, slatternly prostitute; hence pejorative for a younger prostitute UK
- — Julian Franklyn, A Dictionary of Rhyming Slang, 1961
- a criminal’s past associations and activities US
- Keeping out of the old bag is seen to be a major obstacle in making it. The old bag in this instance is a former life routine involving a great many felonious acts[.] — John Irwin, The Felon, p. 89, 1970
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