Definition av handbag

• A small bag used by women for carrying various small personal items
• An subgenre of house music of the late 1980s, often with booming vocals
• Figuratively, to hit with a handbag; to attack verbally or subject to criticism . Originally used literally to describe the action of British female police officers , these policewomen would carry a handbag containing a short police-issue truncheon, and when apprehending criminals, rather than slowing down to remove the truncheon from the bag, the female officers would simply swing their handbags, using the weight of the bag as a legitimate weapon.

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