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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Time Traveler for bum bag
The first known use of bum bag was in 1951
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