jerrybag

English

Etymology

From Jerry +‎ bag.

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Noun

jerrybag (plural jerrybags)

  1. (slang, historical) A woman who consorted with the Germans during the Second World War.
    • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 263:
      I said, ‘Raymond and Horace are killed, and my lovely Liza is a jerry-bag.’
    • 2008, Stephen Baxter, Weaver:
      ‘I saw you smiling at those Jerries. I was in the bloody BEF. We saw girls like you in France. A Jerrybag, are you, is that the story?’
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