Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bag to sleep in.
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Examples
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Often, it's body-bag journalism, practiced prominently in many major TV markets.
Bill Mann: Cable, Broadcast TV Cynics Fearlessly Mine Public Fears Bill Mann 2011
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Often, it's body-bag journalism, practiced prominently in many major TV markets.
Bill Mann: Cable, Broadcast TV Cynics Fearlessly Mine Public Fears Bill Mann 2011
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It didn't see population protection as central to the mission or our core responsibility and wanted to avoid any and all talk that resembled the body-bag emphasis of the Vietnam War, O'Hanlon said.
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At this point, not only do I feel they need to leave the body-bag scene in, I want them to add a scene where they exhume Ledger and use his corpse hand to touch girls in a Latter Day Saints compound inappropriately.
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Some local TV news departments specialize in crass "body-bag" news, sometimes called "If it bleeds, it leads."
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So I get to vote in Nov for the body-bag McCain or the empty suit Obama.
RNC hits Obama over Auschwitz claim, Obama camp responds 2008
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Some local TV news departments specialize in crass "body-bag" news, sometimes called "If it bleeds, it leads."
Bill Mann: A Few Basics You Need to Know When Watching TV News 2010
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As the train stopped at one station, we saw a couple of carabinieri carrying a body-bag away from the platform.
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As the train stopped at one station, we saw a couple of carabinieri carrying a body-bag away from the platform.
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Every time you see her pictured out with her husband, the accompanying story reveals that "Cheryl and Ashley departed after dinner at 9pm so Mrs Cole could get her fourteen hours sleep in a seaweed body-bag, whilst the rest of Girls Aloud partied with hot men, drank cocktails, and generally had fun into the early hours."
Fat Is A Fantasist Issue juliette 2009
dinkum commented on the word body-bag
WORD: body-bag
DEFINITION:
(1) Same as the definition for body bag . All but one of the examples given on this 'body-bag' page illustrate the 'corpse envelope' meaning, not the 'sleeping bag' meaning given above.
(2) Only one example sentence here illustrates "n., A bag to sleep in." And that would be the sentence from Fat Is A Fantasist Issue: ' Mrs Cole could get her fourteen hours sleep in a seaweed body-bag . . . '
September 18, 2013