doggy bag

doggy bag
noun
a bag for food that a customer did not eat at a restaurant; the transparent pretense is that the food is taken home to feed the customer's dog
• Syn: ↑doggie bag
• Hypernyms: ↑sack, ↑poke, ↑paper bag, ↑carrier bag

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noun

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a small bag provided on request by a restaurant for a customer to carry home leftovers of a meal, ostensibly to feed a dog or other pet.
[1965-70, Amer.]

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doggy bag UK US noun [countable] [singular doggy bag plural doggy bags]
a bag or box that you take home from a restaurant, containing the food that you did not finish eating
Thesaurus: in restaurants and cafeshyponym

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doggy bag,
U.S. a bag given to a customer of a restaurant to carry home leftover food supposedly to feed a dog: »

[His] wife couldn't finish her turkey sandwich. The elderly waitress put it in a doggy bag for her (New Yorker).

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↑doggie bag

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ˈdoggy bag f7 [doggy bag doggy bags] (also ˈdoggie bag) noun (informal)
a bag for taking home any food that is left after a meal in a restaurant

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