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Catchword for “bag drag”
Catchword: bag drag
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Part of Speech: n.
The part of speech reflects that used in the full entry, and not necessarily the part of speech as it is used in the quotation below.
Quotation: Sometimes if you have a 20 or 30 minute turn in a city, somebody on the crew will make a food run to the terminal. If you’re lucky, you stay with one plane all day. If not, you’ve got a bag drag from one end of the airport to another.
Article or Document Title:
“The work we do”
Author:
Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, Becky Howell
Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
Austin American-Statesman
Date of Publication:
Aug. 31, 2000
Page Number:
26
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