Meanings
nounjiffy-bag (plural jiffy-bags)
plural jiffy-bags
- alternativeAlternative form of Jiffy bag.
At the lodge he cleared his pigeon-hole. The largest object there was a jiffy-bag stuck with a hand-made label saying 'Toast by Post'.
1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 39
Origin
A genericized form of Jiffy bag.
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