suitcase
suitcase
Definition
suit·case (-kās′)
noun
a travel case for clothes, etc., esp. a rectangular one that opens into two hinged compartments
suitcase
Synonyms
suitcase
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- unpack: Periodically, they unpack these suitcases and review every situation in which they feel they were treated unfairly.
- lug: Maybe they're just lugging two suitcases full of bricks around for absolutely no reason whatsoever!
- carry: Walking round a car park in the dark carrying a suitcase looking for my car was not the ideal end to a holiday.
- pack: Meg arrives home to find Dennis packing a suitcase.
- fill: I walked into the POW camp, complete with two suitcases filled with all manner of food.
- wheel: I wheeled a suitcase into Reading town center to haul away all the personal stuff she'd accumulated at the office.
Adjective modifier
- battered: Later we stand together in front of a battered leather suitcase, filled with small luggage labels.
- heavy: Ever tried navigate Ankara with a heavy suitcase in tow?
- brown: But it wasn't as an ordinary housewife that my mother primarily wished to be remembered in the leavings of the brown suitcase.
- empty: You are not at all like an empty suitcase.
- small: I love to pack myself in a small suitcase.
- huge: I went with two huge suitcases full of wool - woolen sweaters, woolen underwear.
Modifies a noun
- nuke: He's obsessed with suitcase nukes, with tiny weapons concealed in bags, easily carried into the city.
- bomb: Apparently a suitcase bomb went off during a session.
Noun used with modifier
- cardboard: The magician's underwear has just been found in a cardboard suitcase floating in a stagnant pond on the outskirts of Miami.
- leather: Later we stand together in front of a battered leather suitcase, filled with small luggage labels.
Preposition: of
- clothes: The magazine gave us a suitcase of clothes - mainly jeans and T-shirts.
- cash: After all, it's your suitcase of cash and you really don't want to see it go up in smoke.
Preposition: with
- wheel: It is quite a good idea to have a suitcase with wheels or a light luggage trolley.
Preposition: per
- person: Portage of one suitcase per person is included wherever possible.
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