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suitcase

nounverbcommon in dialogue

  • United States//ˈsutkeɪs//
  • //ˈs(j)uːtkeɪs//

A large (usually rectangular) piece of luggage used for carrying clothes, and sometimes suits, when travelling.

noun

  1. 1

    A large (usually rectangular) piece of luggage used for carrying clothes, and sometimes suits, when travelling.

    My suitcase is stowed in the luggage rack.

    A stocky cabwoman removed a large wheeled suitcase.

    Many seats carry reservation labels, while the luggage racks are festooned with backpacks and suitcases.

  2. 2

    In the Classic Mac OS operating system, a file containing fonts, icons, sounds, and other resources.

Etymology

Etymology tree English suit substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Proto-Italic *kapsos Latin capsa Old Northern French cassebor. Middle English case English case English suitcase From suit + case.

verb

  1. 1

    To trade using samples in a suitcase.

  2. 2

    slangTo smuggle in one's rectum.

Forms

plural
suitcases
past tense
suitcased
past participle
suitcased
present participle
suitcasing
third person singular
suitcases
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).