side bag

noun

Any bag carried on one's side.

Meanings

nounside bag (plural side bags)

plural side bags

  1. Any bag carried on one's side.

    He lifted his sidebag off one tumbril, swung it over the sails of Beatrice, and walked down the gulley, followed by Sheba, Toby and Phillip.

    2011, Henry Williamson, Lucifer Before Sunrise, Faber & Faber, →ISBN
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    The new, red strap holding Edith's sidebag had loosened and burnt-through too. Miraculously, the bag had stayed with the bike without any back-up strap.

    2015, Ray Simm, Wobbles, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 75

    Figulus reached a hand into his sidebag and quickly produced the waxed tablet containing the authorisation one of the legate's clerks had drawn up the previous evening at the marching camp on Vectis.

    2016, Simon Scarrow, T. J. Andrews, Invader, Headline, →ISBN

    Enter: the summer side bag, the carryall your street-style-savvy celebrities, including Kaia Gerber, Rita Ora and now Kylie Jenner, have been wearing lately.

    2018 June 13, Diana Nguyen, “Kylie Jenner Sports the New Fanny Pack A.K.A. Summer Side Bag”, in E! Online
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APA

side bag. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/side%20bag

MLA

“side bag.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/side%20bag. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “side bag,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/side%20bag.

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