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witches’ knickers noun plastic bags caught up in trees or shrubs IRELAND- Two-thirds of this is plastic carrier bags, which end up in landfill or blowing about in trees and hedges (now known colloquially as “witches knickers”). — The Irish Times, p. 66, 23 December 2000
- South Africans call poly bags the “national flower” and in Alaska they are known as “tundra ghosts”. The Irish, eloquent as ever, have dubbed them “witches knickers” while in Scotland the plastic carrier is known as “an essential.” — The Sunday Herald (Glasgow), p. 10, 4 November 2004
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