Meanings
plural butt bags
- CanadaUSinformalA fanny pack.
“Oh, and nice butt bag, loser,” she added. “Goes great with your yoga outfit.”
2014, Todd Clark, The Ice Cream Kid: Brain Freeze!, →ISBN3 more examples
Each carried a shielded crimson dive light, invisible from the surface, which gave objects a gray, pallid distortion. They were also equipped with a knife strapped to one calf, a small P-6 pistol holstered on the other, a compact butt bag of tools, and a short bang stick armed with a twelve-gauge shotgun shell to ward off sharks.
1990, Charles Ryan, The capricorn quadrant, →ISBN, page 15The social worker obliged him this, after which Phael abruptly asked for the return of his butt bag and left the room.
1994, Thomas L. Kuhlman, Psychology on the Streets: Mental Health Practice with Homeless Persons, →ISBN"I got everything in my butt bag. No, I won't take it off during flight . . . I'll just move it around to the front.”
2010, Ann Wade, Seeing in Darkness: A True Story of Friendship and Courage, →ISBN - hobbiesA seat attached to ropes on which a climber can sit while belaying.
If you're tackling a super-steep rock route, then consider taking along, or making, a nylon 'butt bag' – a fabric seat that will take some of the weight off of your harness.
2016, Andy Kirkpatrick, 1001 Climbing Tips, →ISBN3 more examples
An alpine hammer, which has seen better days but never ice, slots into his holster. A wire brush, a nut pick, jumars and etriers all clip onto his harness and his butt bag (belay seat) goes into his pocket.
1986, New Zealand Alpine Journal - Volume 39, page 113Some continuously steep routes with numerous hanging belays necessitate a belay seat or butt bag. A butt bag with three points of suspension is more comfortable than a two-point bag.
1999, Mark Twight, James Martin, Extreme Alpinism: Climbing Light, High, and Fast, →ISBNWith nearly no moves easier than 5.8 or harder than 5.10a, and with no rest ledges, it is heaven for 5.10 climbers, as long as you bring a butt bag or a comfortable harness for the hanging belays.
2004, Greg Barnes, Larry DeAngelo, Red Rocks Climbing: SuperTopos
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