clutch bag

1. 1.

   a woman's strapless purse that is carried in the hand

   Synonymsclutch

   Broaderbag

Questions about clutch bag

What does clutch bag mean?

clutch bag means "a woman's strapless purse that is carried in the hand".

What is another word for clutch bag?

Close synonyms include clutch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is clutch bag a common word?

clutch bag is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.