shopping bag

a strong, usually paper or plastic, bag with handles, used to carry purchases or belongings.

Origin of shopping bag

First recorded in 1925–30

I had a clipping in my shopping-bag cut from the morning paper.

The Fifth Wheel |Olive Higgins Prouty
The visitor produced from her shopping-bag the written announcement of the Recreation Club play.

The Clarion |Samuel Hopkins Adams
I stood for a moment looking at the group and fingering the handle of my shopping-bag nervously.

At the Age of Eve |Kate Trimble Sharber
Helen declined the one offered her, and drew a book from her shopping-bag.

A Book of Bryn Mawr Stories |Marian T. MacIntosh

Octavia found her shopping-bag, and drew from it a long envelope filled with typewritten documents.

Whirligigs |O. Henry