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bum bag

noun
variants: or less commonly bumbag \ˈbəm-ˌbag\

Definition of bum bag

plural bum bags also bumbags
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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1951

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