Definition of "shopping bag" []

• A strong bag with handles for carrying a shopper's purchases. (noun)

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• "“Fine,” I say, handing over a pair of twenties as Evan relieves our butcher of the big chicken, grabbing its feet and deftly depositing it at the bottom of the plain brown-paper shopping bag we have carried in for just such an eventuality."
• "We ford the human current, marching purposefully through the double brass doors, careful to protect the cargo within our shopping bag from any panic-inducing contact, and into the throng of driven consumers."
• "Another local, a middle-aged woman named Marianne Mok, stopped in the store with red plastic shopping bag in hand to ask Fong about an exhibit of Buddhist relics he was organizing; she worked a few blocks away in the business district and often picked up produce and pastries in Chinatown."