PLASTIC BAG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plastic bag mean? 

• PLASTIC BAG (noun)
  The noun PLASTIC BAG has 1 sense:

1. a bag made of thin plastic material

  Familiarity information: PLASTIC BAG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLASTIC BAG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bag made of thin plastic material

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("plastic bag" is a kind of...):

bag (a flexible container with a single opening)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plastic bag"):

bin liner (a plastic bag used to line a trash or garbage bin)

 Context examples 

She said the worms can “do damage to a plastic bag in less than an hour.”

(Plastic Eating Worm Could Help Ease Pollution, VOA)