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handbags
1. n. plural of handbag
2. n. (slang) An insignificant fight or argument.
3. interj. (UK, slang) Said jocularly in response to a particularly derogatory, bitchy or catty dialogue; calm down; cool it.
Person A: Not another cheeseburger, Marcia?
Person B: What's it to you?
Person A: Well, you're fat enough as it is.
Person B: You can talk!
Person C: Ooh - handbags ladies!
handbag
1. n. (mainly Commonwealth) A small bag used by women (or sometimes by men) for carrying various small personal items.
2. n. An subgenre of house music of the late 1980s, often with booming vocals.
3. v. (UK, transitive, humorous) Figuratively, to hit with a handbag; to attack verbally or subject to criticism (used of Margaret Thatcher). (attn, en, ety)

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When I went to change handbags I picked up one of hers by mistake.  Also in the exhibition is a display of royal handbags, including a red leather document case larger than a ministerial despatch box.

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