bag lady
noun
plural bag ladies
sometimes offensive
: a woman with no established residence who roams the streets of a city carrying her possessions in shopping bags
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The play is filled with outlandish characters — most conspicuously, Trudy, the bag lady, who has lost her mind and in the process has made contact with space aliens curious about higher consciousness on Earth.
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Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2022
The choral ensembles were stirring and effective, especially those for the women portraying Verdi’s witches, depicted in this staging as like a sisterhood of frumpily dressed yet menacing bag ladies.
—New York Times, 26 Sep. 2019
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Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2022
The choral ensembles were stirring and effective, especially those for the women portraying Verdi’s witches, depicted in this staging as like a sisterhood of frumpily dressed yet menacing bag ladies.
—New York Times, 26 Sep. 2019
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“Bag lady.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bag%20lady. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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