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- noun A
satchel used to carry supplies for school, abookbag
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a bag for carrying school books and supplies
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Examples
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And the weird Queenslanders call a schoolbag a port.
I say pyjama… 2008
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“Maybe I've forgotten something in my schoolbag…” But he already knows, as he rifles through the ripped sheets and broken pencils that there is nothing.
The Fall of Buffalo Bill Ingrid Hardy 2011
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These include Piet Breinholm the man who turned the vintage Danish leather schoolbag into a style object, who has crafted leather tags for the room keys.
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I hoist my schoolbag higher and enter the overgrown front garden, the air full of spilled motor oil and rubber tires.
bolt the door James Claffey 2011
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It was like remembering you forgot your schoolbag after the bus had already dumped you off at school.
Kings of Colorado David E. Hilton 2011
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I cringed as I recalled, as I often did in the retail district, the humiliation of being caught by Mr. Conti with a bottle of shampoo that my mother had forced me to slip into my schoolbag.
Brooklyn Story Suzanne Corso 2011
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“Mom, please,” I said as I dropped my schoolbag onto the tattered area rug, “not now.”
Brooklyn Story Suzanne Corso 2011
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It was like remembering you forgot your schoolbag after the bus had already dumped you off at school.
Kings of Colorado David E. Hilton 2011
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I asked Mom before I dropped my schoolbag and took off my sweater.
Brooklyn Story Suzanne Corso 2011
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In the morning, the boys are gratifyingly ecstatic, but as we're setting off for school someone knocks the spaceship with a schoolbag, and the left side shears off and clatters to the floor, breaking into several pieces.
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