polybag

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noun

A plastic bag used to package a number of things together, but especially one used to package small supplementary publications that would otherwise fall out of a newspaper or magazine.

OriginEnglish bag ← Middle English bagge ← Old French baguebor.? →
UncommonScrabble 15
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Meanings

nounpolybag (plural polybags)

plural polybags

  1. A plastic bag used to package a number of things together, but especially one used to package small supplementary publications that would otherwise fall out of a newspaper or magazine.
verbpolybag (third-person singular simple present polybags, present participle polybagging, simple past and past participle polybagged)

present singular third person polybags · participle present polybagging · participle past polybagged · past polybagged

  1. To package in a plastic bag.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pleh₁-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*polh₁ús
  3. Ancient Greekπολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)
  4. Englishpoly-
  5. Old Norsebaggibor.?
  6. Old Frenchbaguebor.?
  7. Middle Englishbagge
  8. Englishbag
  9. Englishpolybag

From poly- + bag.

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APA

polybag. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/polybag

MLA

“polybag.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/polybag. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “polybag,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/polybag.

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