Definitions
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- noun An person who carries someone's bags
- noun informal A relatively unimportant
assistant orspokesman of a more important person
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Examples
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Steve Williams as another friend and was upset when Woods sacked his long term bag-carrier last month.
Evening Standard - Home David Smith 2011
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• I am sure we can all congratulate Nick Boles, the Tory MP for Grantham and Stamford and parliamentary bag-carrier to schools minister Nick Gibb, for celebrating his civil partnership with Shay Meshulam with a knees-up on Ibiza this weekend.
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On which topic, does anyone have the full skinny on the 'phone call from Buck House that allegedly got him the Tory bag-carrier job?
Meeja studies Norfolk Blogger 2009
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It is not just that, like, young American teens are desperate to become famous, but they put such a premium on fame that they're willing to give us some of the most coveted positions in America just to be the bag-carrier to the celebrity.
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For his bag-carrier followed behind, straining under the weight of two large red ministerial boxes.
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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And Ball will be seen as having been his bag-carrier.
Archive 2008-04-01 Not a sheep 2008
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And Ball will be seen as having been his bag-carrier.
Popular Balls? Not a sheep 2008
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Quentin Davies, the former Tory floor-crosser, was there, then Angela Smith, who used to be Gordon Brown's PPS, or bag-carrier.
The peerless John Prescott takes his place in House Of Lords 2010
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And it exposes the disenfranchisement of those traditional, and therefore former, Labourites who find ourselves in agreement with a party now led by a Thatcher bag-carrier.
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Cameron was a general bag-carrier in the Treasury – emphatically not the Ed Balls figure to which Mr Brown alludes.
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