Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A collection of dissimilar things; an assortment.
Wiktionary
- n. any bag containing a mixture of something
- n. by extension, a group of entities with few characteristics in common; an assortment
- n. idiomatic something tending to have both good and bad results or characteristics; something having a mixture of advantages and disadvantages
WordNet 3.0
- n. a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
Etymologies
- From mixed + bag. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I knew that if he found out that I was a mixed bag of tricks with a lifetime of queer history, he would drop me like a spaghetti sandwich from the Refectory.”
“A live version of 'Walking On The Moon' was included on all but one of the UK single releases, which as a group included a real mixed bag of tracks including a live version of Brel's 'Ne Me Quitte Pas' from 1988, further live tracks from the Dutch concert in 1991 plus the studio version of 'Fragilidad'.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mixed bag’.
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Collections
Have I made this list before? Has someone else collected these words together? I can't remember, so I'm just going to start storing some things here.
collection, omnium-gatherum, sylloge, antiphonary, anthology, bestiary, cartulary, dossier, sampler, assortment, variety, hodgepodge and 65 more...
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Un zorro en Buenos Aires
virtual tour, frenetic, untable, chile, callao, gripe porcina, bonaerense, moflete, academy of st. ma..., sir neville marriner, brahms's first sy..., astor piazzola and 95 more...
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Thrown - about tossed - Words
bal-; bol-; -bol; -ble and incau(gh)tious others
ballistic, ballad, symbol, bolide, ballet, problem, ball, parabola, parable, amphibole, boule, diabolical and 184 more...
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