carry-on

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Taken onto an airplane (or a ferry, etc.) with a passenger, rather than checked.

   • It's a compact suitcase, but it makes a good carry-on bag.
2. 2

   That luggage or baggage which is taken onto an airplane (or a ferry, etc.) with a…

   That luggage or baggage which is taken onto an airplane (or a ferry, etc.) with a passenger, rather than checked.

   • Do you think they'll accept my ski poles as carry-on?
3. 3

   A palaver

   A palaver; a disorderly or absurd situation.

   • Sometimes all this carry-on about race, religion and sex seems so petty and silly that I cannot take it seriously.
   • "I love salad",she dared when it came to the next course, and then inwardly cringed when it seemed that that was actually a special order and there was such a carry-on about what kind of salad she wanted.
   • The stopping, restarting, swearing and routine self-deprecation ("I'm in trouble with the vicar – eternal trouble," quips Martin) is the kind of carry-on that has fans purring with pleasure.

The neighborhood

• neighborrollaboard
• neighbortrolley suitcase