doggy 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

   Synonymsdoggie bag

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Questions about doggy bag

What does doggy bag mean?

doggy 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 doggy bag?

Close synonyms include doggie 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 doggy bag a common word?

doggy bag is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.