gripsack

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grip·sack

(grĭp′săk′)

A small suitcase.

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gripsack

(ˈɡrɪpˌsæk)

a travel bag

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grip•sack

(ˈgrɪpˌsæk)

n.

a traveling bag.

[1875–80, Amer.]

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gripsack - a small suitcase

suitcase, traveling bag, travelling bag, grip, bag - a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes; "he carried his small bag onto the plane with him"

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gripsack

n (US) → Reisetasche f

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McMurdo picked up his leather gripsack and was about to start off into the darkness, when one of the miners accosted him.

"I thank you," said McMurdo, and shaking hands with his new acquaintance he plodded, gripsack in hand, up the path which led to the dwelling house, at the door of which he gave a resounding knock.

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The tradition runs that he swept into the office with a breezy manner and a small gripsack, and was swept out after a brief and inglorious experience by the indignant Bennett who pronounced him "the laziest man who had ever put foot into the shop." It probably bothered Walt not at all, this parting expression of editorial disapproval, for he hied him to the Wild West and won for himself an undying fame.