Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bag to hold a soldier's or sailor's kit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a knapsack (usually for a soldier).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
duffel bag , especially amilitary one
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a knapsack (usually for a soldier)
- noun a knapsack (usually for a soldier)
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Examples
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(I still keep a flashlight in my kitbag from a long ago trip to Cali).
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Thankfully the military has a kitbag full of euphemisms.
Hugh Muir's Diary 2011
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Hail our life, our sweetness, and our hope that soon his month on dry land would be up, and he would return to the rigs, his gear packed in the kitbag, his peacoat buttoned to the collar.
three for the christmas James Claffey 2011
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He turned the kitbag upside down and tipped its contents out on to the linoleum.
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"It was a unique period," he exhales, before packing his kitbag of lunacy for one last go-round, two-decades of memory working its way through the fog.
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On his sleeve the blackening gold braid ran in the undulating rings of a lieutenant in the R.N.V.R. In his hand he carried a half-empty seaman's kitbag with some articles in it.
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"It was a unique period," he exhales, before packing his kitbag of lunacy for one last go-round, two-decades of memory working its way through the fog.
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"It was a unique period," he exhales, before packing his kitbag of lunacy for one last go-round, two-decades of memory working its way through the fog.
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The trawler officer untied the neck of the kitbag and turned it back.
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It's hard to imagine any writer of speculative fiction not having taken on board this novel; like The Lord of the Rings, it's part of the genre's kitbag and arguably has worn rather better.
:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2009
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