Meaning

6 senses

  1. A bag whose contents are unknown.

  2. A bagged package, randomly picked, which contains surprises (e.g., mystery prizes).

  3. A bag from which a gift may be withdrawn (usually unseen until after chosen).

  4. A non-specific mixed lot of a product at the supplier's choice.

  5. (Australia, slang)A sausage.

  6. (Australia, slang)A pie.

Translations

1 languages

Origin

From mystery + bag. From 19th c. British rhyming slang for snag (“sausage”), influenced b

From mystery + bag.

From 19th c. British rhyming slang for snag (“sausage”), influenced by sense “bag whose contents are unknown”.

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Forms

plural: mystery bags
Singularmystery bag
Pluralmystery bags

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
blind baggrab bag

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
myspacemysteriousA2mysteriouslymysteryA2mysticalmysticismmystifyB2mystiqueC2
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