Definitions

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  • noun A bag whose contents are unknown.
  • noun A surprise package randomly picked, a lucky dip.
  • noun A non-specific mixed lot of a product at the supplier's choice.
  • noun slang A sausage.
  • noun Australia, slang A pie.

Etymologies

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From mystery + bag.

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From 19thC British Rhyming slang for snag ("sausage"), influenced by sense “bag whose contents are unknown”.

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  • sausage

    July 24, 2008