A plastic or paper bag with handles, especially one supplied by a shop to carry goods purchased there.
〈英〉（尤指商店提供的塑料或纸制的）购物袋，手提袋
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Entrants will be able to buy a carrier bag containing local fruit and vegetables from a greengrocer in the town, a percentage of the cost going to the charity.
They were seen entering the shop with an empty carrier bag and filling it with the clothes.
He bundles it up in a brown carrier bag and takes it home.
I take one bag for shoes and another for clothes, and I carry my hats on board in a carrier bag.
She handed Sarah a carrier bag filled with herbs and then a separate piece of paper.
Police were awaiting the results of forensic tests on the gun, which was found in a plastic carrier bag.
All four men made off with the cash in a carrier bag.
The librarian greets me, then introduces my audience, a solitary lady clutching a carrier bag.
She noticed for the first time that one of them was carrying a plastic carrier bag.
‘We went in to a shop and the owner gave him a carrier bag and told him to go and pick loads of sweets,’ she said.
Then their guide took out a plastic carrier bag and started tossing chunks of raw meat over the side of the bridge, down towards the crocodiles.
I walked through Bradford city centre recently and would have been hard-pressed to fill a carrier bag with litter.
Martin went round in circles clutching his carrier bag of clothes in one hand and his leather satchel of papers in the other.
He was carrying a carrier bag and took out a pair of gloves and what appeared to be a baseball bat.
She opened the safe, and gave the robber two bags each containing 500 £1 coins, which went into a carrier bag.
Sadly when I went back an hour or so later they had put all the sandwich wrappers in a carrier bag then dumped it on the grass along with five Coca cola cans.
It turns out that he's gone round the corner to a Victorian market, returning with a carrier bag containing a top hat, a bowler hat and a bright red feather boa.
I take my old sandals off and push them into a plastic carrier bag, then stick my feet into a pair of fashionable shoes I bought with last week's pay.
After the burglary he threw the carrier bag, the purse and balaclava into the canal.
He was also carrying a plastic carrier bag which was gripped in his fist.