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bag lady

[bag ley-dee] / ˈbæg ˌleɪ di /


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"People called us the bag lady because I used to carry all my bags everywhere."

From BBC • Sep. 21, 2025

Ms. Komar said: “That she was seen as some kind of bag lady, that her art gets overshadowed by those stories, makes us angry.”

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2024

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.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2022

“I thought I would be a bag lady 10 years from now saying, ‘Hey, I invented those,’ ” Ms. Revson told The Post in 1995.

From Washington Post • Sep. 19, 2022

With a slight push, a slip over some ill-defined edge, I could turn into a bag lady.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood