doggie bag

1. 1.

   a bag for food that a customer did not eat at a restaurant; the transparent pretense is that the food is taken home to feed the customer's dog

   Synonymsdoggy bag

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Questions about doggie bag

What does doggie bag mean?

doggie bag means "a bag for food that a customer did not eat at a restaurant; the transparent pretense is that the food is taken home to feed the customer's dog".

What is another word for doggie bag?

Close synonyms include doggy bag. 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 doggie bag a common word?

doggie 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.