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  • noun An person who carries someone's bags
  • noun informal A relatively unimportant assistant or spokesman of a more important person

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Examples

  • Steve Williams as another friend and was upset when Woods sacked his long term bag-carrier last month.

    Evening Standard - Home David Smith 2011

  • • I am sure we can all congratulate Nick Boles, the Tory MP for Grantham and Stamford and parliamentary bag-carrier to schools minister Nick Gibb, for celebrating his civil partnership with Shay Meshulam with a knees-up on Ibiza this weekend.

    Stephen Bates's diary 2011

  • On which topic, does anyone have the full skinny on the 'phone call from Buck House that allegedly got him the Tory bag-carrier job?

    Meeja studies Norfolk Blogger 2009

  • It is not just that, like, young American teens are desperate to become famous, but they put such a premium on fame that they're willing to give us some of the most coveted positions in America just to be the bag-carrier to the celebrity.

    From A 'Teenage Paparazzo,' A Lesson About Fame 2010

  • For his bag-carrier followed behind, straining under the weight of two large red ministerial boxes.

    Hugh Muir's diary 2011

  • And Ball will be seen as having been his bag-carrier.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • And Ball will be seen as having been his bag-carrier.

    Popular Balls? Not a sheep 2008

  • Quentin Davies, the former Tory floor-crosser, was there, then Angela Smith, who used to be Gordon Brown's PPS, or bag-carrier.

    The peerless John Prescott takes his place in House Of Lords 2010

  • And it exposes the disenfranchisement of those traditional, and therefore former, Labourites who find ourselves in agreement with a party now led by a Thatcher bag-carrier.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • Cameron was a general bag-carrier in the Treasury – emphatically not the Ed Balls figure to which Mr Brown alludes.

    Brownies galore at PMQs 2008

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