saddlebag

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   one of a pair of bags carried across or beside a saddle, or a similar bag fitted to a bicycle or motorcycle

   The rider packed food and a blanket in each saddlebag.

2. 2
   noun

   informal, usually plural: a bulge of fat around the outer upper thighs

   The advertisement made insulting claims about eliminating saddlebags.

A compound of saddle + bag, recorded in the eighteenth century for one of a pair of pouches carried over a horse's saddle. The term later extended to bags on bicycles and motorcycles and, by visual comparison, to bulges at the outer thighs.

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