saddlebag

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From saddle +‎ bag.

• IPA^(key): /sædəlˈbæɡ/
• Rhymes: -æɡ
• Hyphenation: sad‧dle‧bag

saddlebag (plural saddlebags)

1. A covered pouch, usually one of a pair, laid across the back of a horse, donkey, or mule behind its saddle, or hanging over the rear wheel of a bicycle or motorcycle; often made of leather or (on a bicycle or motorcycle) a rigid material.
   • 2006, Robert Adon Fink, Twilight Innings: A West Texan on Grace and Survival‎, page 16:

     Frustrated, rushed, you toss the saddlebags filled with textbooks, ungraded papers, and drafts of poems onto the back of your cruiser motorcycle and roar off down Ambler not thinking speed and a strong crosswind will lift the saddlebags into flight like some leather-winged prehistoric bird hanging in the air a second before flopping onto the busiest street in North Abilene.

   • 2008, David Thomasson, The Ghost of Hollering Woman Creek‎, page 59:

     Lifting the reins over the horse's head, he tied them to a nearby tree limb and moved back to the saddlebags. Untying the leather thongs that bound them behind the saddle, he picked the saddlebags up, hobbled to a nearby tree, and sat down at its base.

   • 2010, Frank W. Lewis, The Gold Rush: 1847-1849‎, page 417:

     There was no camp, bedroll, or fire and no other sign of a man, just the saddled horse with saddlebags and packs tied on behind it.

2. (in the plural) Loose fatty flesh on a person's upper thighs or buttocks, that hangs like saddlebags.
3. (architecture) A style of house with two rooms separated by a small hall and open space.

• (loose fatty flesh): riding breeches (on the upper thighs)

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