bread bag

noun

A plastic wrapper in which a loaf of bread is packaged to keep it fresh.

Meanings

nounbread bag (plural bread bags)

plural bread bags

  1. A plastic wrapper in which a loaf of bread is packaged to keep it fresh.
  2. alternativeAlternative form of breadbag (“sack for hardtack”).

    As the laborer was putting his knife away in his bread bag he fell and stabbed himself through his stomach in his liver.

    2015, Michael Jacobson, Arthur Schulz, A Biography from Wilhelmine Germany, page 82
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