Meanings
plural jerrybags
- 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 2631 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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