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bag lady

noun

a homeless woman who lives and sleeps on city streets or in public places, often keeping all her belongings with her in shopping bags.

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bag lady

—n
	Also called (in full): shopping bag lady a woman who is homeless and wanders city streets with all her possessions in shopping bags

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"Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced by the bag lady and the welfare mother. Women have even taken over Skid Row."

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