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bag of fruit en · NOUN

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1. (Australia, slang) A suit (clothing).
   • Very few of the males wore the bag of fruit. ‘Suits’ were becoming the contemptuous synechdoche now used in reference to members of the executive/managerial elite. 1995, Overland, numbers 138-141, page 46:
   • A few nights later Patti dug out my ‘bag of fruit’, but there was no way I was going to wear that. 2009, Rex Ellis, Go with the Flow, page 43:
   • The bloke's suit looked made-to-order for someone else's body, not so much a bag of fruit as a crate of it, and his hat band was twice the normal width, more like a bandana. 2011, Christopher Kremmer, The Chase, unnumbered page:
   • One had spent much time in Queensland. Ah! he said, fingering my jacket. Australian bag of fruit. 2003, Brian Castro, Shanghai Dancing, page 377:

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