Slangora

duffel bag

(UK) A smaller, cylindrical, cloth bag fashionable in the 1950s and 1960s.

ˈdʌfəl ˈbæɡCurrent120 viewsLast reviewed Jun 29, 2026+ Add a definition
👗 Fashion & Lifestyle
2 definitions
Community

Definitions

UK
#1·Apr 27, 2026UK

(UK) A smaller, cylindrical, cloth bag fashionable in the 1950s and 1960s.

Was this helpful?

Comments

UK
#2·Apr 27, 2026UK

(US, AU, often, _, military) A large, cylindrical, duffel cloth bag used to carry personal gear, especially by soldiers.

Origin: After the Belgian town of Duffel, which produced the thick cloth from which early duffel bags were made. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Heard in the wild
  • “If I were on the county commission board I would take my duffel bag of hundies and flee to a country that does not have an extradition treaty with the USA.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
Was this helpful?

Comments

Used in

UK

Have a better definition?

Add your own interpretation of "duffel bag".

Add definition

👗About Fashion & Lifestyle slang

The aesthetic vocabulary of how people dress now — quiet luxury, coquette, mob wife, coastal grandmother, Y2K core, and every "-core" that came after.

See all Fashion & Lifestyle slang on Slangora.

Tags

Other words near "duffel bag" (D)

Browse all slang words starting with D.

Related terms

People also read

Semantically related