shoulder bag

1. 1.

   a large handbag that can be carried by a strap looped over the shoulder

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Questions about shoulder bag

What does shoulder bag mean?

shoulder bag means "a large handbag that can be carried by a strap looped over the shoulder".

Is shoulder bag a common word?

shoulder 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.