jerrybag

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noun

A woman who consorted with the Germans during the Second World War.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

nounjerrybag (plural jerrybags)

plural jerrybags

  1. historicalslangA woman who consorted with the Germans during the Second World War.

    I said, ‘Raymond and Horace are killed, and my lovely Liza is a jerry-bag.’

    1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 263
    1 more example

    ‘I saw you smiling at those Jerries. I was in the bloody BEF. We saw girls like you in France. A Jerrybag, are you, is that the story?’

    2008, Stephen Baxter, Weaver

Origin

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