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  • noun plural Bags, usually of leather, united by straps or a band, formerly much used by horseback riders to carry small articles, one bag hanging on each side.

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  • noun Plural form of saddlebag.

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Examples

  • He took the saddlebags from the cantle and threw them over his shoulder, mud and all.

    Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990

  • He took the saddlebags from the cantle and threw them over his shoulder, mud and all.

    Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990

  • Early in the book, one of the bank's workout specialists rattles Croker so much that he sweats "saddlebags" -- perspiration that begins in the armpits and eventually covers most of a person's chest -- into his shirt.

    SI.com 2011

  • Actually the solution that I've come to that's the least hassle is putting my groceries in "saddlebags" on my backpack.

    Making Light: Open thread 134 2010

  • I like the pocket design, a kind of deep chevron, but am wondering if I would really want to put large "saddlebags" right over my actual saddlebags.

    Lustworthy Pockets - A Dress A Day 2006

  • Packed in his saddlebags were his father’s ivory-handled knife, his mother’s cameo, photographs of his family—all of them dead now except him—and a small sampler his mother had made when they first settled in California.

    Surrender A Dream Jill Barnett 1991

  • Packed in his saddlebags were his father’s ivory-handled knife, his mother’s cameo, photographs of his family—all of them dead now except him—and a small sampler his mother had made when they first settled in California.

    Surrender A Dream Jill Barnett 1991

  • Packed in his saddlebags were his father’s ivory-handled knife, his mother’s cameo, photographs of his family—all of them dead now except him—and a small sampler his mother had made when they first settled in California.

    Surrender A Dream Jill Barnett 1991

  • Toby replies by reaching back into one of the leather saddlebags and pulling out a large pair of bolt cutters.

    Dakota Roger Weaver 2011

  • During the first scientific survey of the American West, in 1820, zoologist Thomas Say despaired when soldiers deserting the expedition took off with five of his journals in their saddlebags.

    Spiral-Bound and Spellbound Jennie Erin Smith 2011

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