: a cylindrical canvas bag used especially by a sailor for clothes and other gear
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Mattis trashes his resignation forms and, riding the roller coaster of his emotions, packs his seabag for a long deployment.
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Jim Proser, National Review, 15 Aug. 2017
Carrying their seabags on their backs, some of the sailors gathered around Mills for a photo in front of Andrew Mills Hall.
—Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2017
Jim Proser, National Review, 15 Aug. 2017
Carrying their seabags on their backs, some of the sailors gathered around Mills for a photo in front of Andrew Mills Hall.
—Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2017
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First Known Use
1917, in the meaning defined above
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seabag
noun
sea·bag
ˈsē-ˌbag 
: a canvas bag used especially by a sailor for gear (as clothes)
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