bread bag

English

Noun

bread bag (plural bread bags)

1. A plastic wrapper in which a loaf of bread is packaged to keep it fresh.
2. Alternative form of breadbag (“sack for hardtack”).
   • 2015, Michael Jacobson, Arthur Schulz, A Biography from Wilhelmine Germany, page 82:

     As the laborer was putting his knife away in his bread bag he fell and stabbed himself through his stomach in his liver.

Derived terms

• bread-bag clip