Bag Lady (Noun)
Meaning
A homeless woman who carries all her possessions with her in shopping bags.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The streets were filled with desperate souls, but none tugged at the heartstrings like the bag lady who sat on the corner, surrounded by her tattered belongings.
- As a social worker, she had seen her fair share of poverty, but the bag lady who came into the shelter that day was a particularly sad case.
- After losing her job and her apartment, Sarah found herself living on the streets, forced to exist as a bag lady, carrying her dwindling possessions in worn shopping bags.
- David's childlike eyes widened as he watched the bag lady shuffle down the street, her arms loaded with bags that seemed to be holding her down.
- As she walked, the bag lady's eyes darted back and forth, as if fearful of being parted from the few, meager possessions that filled her tattered plastic bags.