English-Spanish translations for handbag

• bolsa
• bolso
  Me robaron el bolso, que estaba en el suelo. My handbag, which had been on the floor, was snatched.
  Las mujeres compran bolsos con etiquetas francesas que se fabrican en Marruecos. Women buy handbags with French labels which are made in Morocco.
  No nos referimos solo a CD y bolsos, sino también a maquinaria y productos de alta tecnología. We are not only speaking about CDs and handbags, but also machinery and hi-tech products.
• bulto
• cartera
  A mi asistente le robaron la cartera y tiene lesionada una mano. My assistant's handbag was grabbed and her hand injured.

Definition of handbag

• A small bag used by women for carrying various small personal items
• An subgenre of house music of the late 1980s, often with booming vocals
• Figuratively, to hit with a handbag; to attack verbally or subject to criticism . Originally used literally to describe the action of British female police officers , these policewomen would carry a handbag containing a short police-issue truncheon, and when apprehending criminals, rather than slowing down to remove the truncheon from the bag, the female officers would simply swing their handbags, using the weight of the bag as a legitimate weapon.