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bum bag

noun
variants: or less commonly bumbag \ ˈbəm-​ˌbag \
plural bum bags also bumbags

Definition of bum bag

British
: fanny pack Modern Middle England … is a place where … respectable old-age pensioners wear baseball caps and bum bags to go shopping, where trams are coming back and high-rise housing is going out.— Rosemary Hill, The Times Literary Supplement, 5 Nov. 1999

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First Known Use of bum bag

1951, in the meaning defined above

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