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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of handbag.

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Examples

  • Theresa May's stock will now rise commensurately after this report (HERE) in which Chief Whinger Harriet Harman complained about being "handbagged" by her Tory opposite number (is that a £50 or a £250 handbag?

    Harman has Corporal Jones Moment 2007

  • Theresa May's stock will now rise commensurately after this report (HERE) in which Chief Whinger Harriet Harman complained about being "handbagged" by her Tory opposite number (is that a £50 or a £250 handbag?

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • So many of the more dinosaur posters seem to still harbour a masochistic need to be handbagged by La Thatcher (however ancient she be).

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • Most members of the top pay club are male, but Linda Cook, the former head of Shell's gas and power division, recently handbagged one of the biggest packages ever received by a woman.

    Invasion of the booty snatchers: how greed is spreading out from the City 2010

  • Yes we have heard it before, most often shortly before the white flag is run up and the same stout parties collapse in a heap after being handbagged by the very same Merkels and Sarkozys they have just threatened.

    Brown in Toothless Threat 2007

  • Yes we have heard it before, most often shortly before the white flag is run up and the same stout parties collapse in a heap after being handbagged by the very same Merkels and Sarkozys they have just threatened.

    Archive 2007-09-02 2007

  • Meanwhile in something of a shock to his feisty wife Elspeth, who had just handbagged the troublesome Cleggy the fire-starting, prick-teasing delinquent, Ming Campbell claimed: "I love young Turks."

    Archive 2007-09-16 2007

  • Meanwhile in something of a shock to his feisty wife Elspeth, who had just handbagged the troublesome Cleggy the fire-starting, prick-teasing delinquent, Ming Campbell claimed: "I love young Turks."

    Libdemologists: Come on Cleggy Light Ming's Pyre 2007

  • It's just that the external me -- the sturdy, lightly wrinkled, handbagged me -- does so little credit to the stuff that's inside.

    The recommended daily allowance M-mv 2004

  • It's just that the external me -- the sturdy, lightly wrinkled, handbagged me -- does so little credit to the stuff that's inside.

    Archive 2004-06-01 M-mv 2004

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