Meanings
plural hot-bags
- bag that generates and/or holds heatAlternative form of hot bag.
The temperature of the hot-bag should not exceed 120°.
1880, Sidney Ringer, A Handbook of Therapeutics, page 873 more examples
One reason that such occurrences are not found frequently is that the rubber hot-bag does not readily fit into the neck, but bottles will roll, and will stay snugly against the skin over the vessels of the neck.
1903 November 28, “Practical Points”, in The British Journal of Nursing, page 433Many cases of pain which do not yield to heat are relieved by the alternate use of the hot-bag and the ice-bag, or the alternation of fomentations and the ice-bag.
1914, William Samuel Sadler, Worry and nervousness, or, The science of self-mastery, page 420"Just keep on with this school as you have been, and you won't have a reason to feel sorry anymore," she said, spoiling his moment of contrition, as she put the hot-bag back on his forehead.
2010, Mercedes Lackey, Brightly Burning - bag for keeping pizza hot during deliveryAlternative form of hot bag.
He had held a red pizza hot-bag horizontally on his arm.
2012, Don Fred, Piscazzi’s Pizza2 more examples
Domino's Pizza Inc. has created a new "hot-bag" technology to keep pizza hot and crisp during delivery.
2014, Francis A Kwansa, H.G. Parsa, Quick Service Restaurants, Franchising, and Multi-Unit Chain Management, page 24Then the exfoliation and the mud wrap, which was appallingly too warm and much more like being imprisoned in a Domino's pizza hot-bag than any sort of spa treatment.
2016, Sierra Rose, Accidentally Married To The Billionaire
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