English Explanatory Dictionary

Blighty bag

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A small bag that holds a wounded soldier's personal effects and accompanies him to hospital.

Word forms

Blighty bag Blighty bags

Etymology

From Blighty one (“a wound that gets one sent away from the front to hospital”).

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