bag ladies
Street-dwelling women
Bag ladies are homeless women who carry their belongings in shopping bags or carts, living on the streets.
The term emerged in the 1970s as visible urban homelessness increased.
It can be used disparagingly or with sympathy: Bag ladies slept in the park.
The singular is bag lady.
- trampsItinerant homeless people
- homelessnessLacking permanent residence
- vagrancyOffense of rootless wandering
- shopping cartWheeled retail basket
- belongingsThings you possess
unsheltered · soup kitchen · impoverished · stigmatization · poverty · carts · cardboard box · park bench · street corner · public spaces · scavenging · down and out · hard times · resilience · marginalization · nomadic · hoarding · bums
- homelessnesshomeless, homeless shelters, unhoused, homeless veterans, houseless
bag ladiesheiresses
Women who inherit fortunes
socialites · millionairesses · billionaires · ladies of leisure · the one percent
bag ladiessociety ladies
Prominent women in upper-class circles
celebrities · power brokers · VIPs · first ladies · matriarchs
bag, lady, bags, bagged, bagging, baggy, ladies, ladylike, ladyship