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bag people en · NOUN

Etymology

Calque of Russian мешочники (mešočniki), from the large sacks they often carried.

Meanings

  1. (plural, plural-only) Small-scale peddlers or traders operating in the wake of economic and political collapse, often having been displaced from the cities into the countryside.