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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
carrier bag
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But, as he rose, he almost tripped on a carrier bag.
▪ Colin dug out a huge carrier bag.
▪ George frowned as he put his mask neatly in the brown carrier bag before driving home.
▪ His arms were wrapped around a full carrier bag on his lap.
▪ Near where he was standing, some one had left a large carrier bag full of clothes.
▪ Plus, there's a unique opportunity for you to purchase a Clothes Show Live carrier bag and catalogue.
▪ What were they doing in a carrier bag?
▪ You will leave it in a carrier bag at a certain place and time.
Wiktionary
carrier bag

n. A bag made of thin polythene or paper, generally used for carrying groceries or other purchased items.

WordNet
carrier bag

n. a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases [syn: sack, poke, paper bag]

Usage examples of "carrier bag".

He undipped the base of his camera, removed the miniaturized transceiver, slipped it into a side pocket, reached into his carrier bag and fed spare film into the base of his camera.

The dark suit he was wearing came off with a tug on certain discreet parts of the garment, and together with the now revealed body moldings that had given Jackson his girth, all of these items were packed in a pizza carrier bag that Jackson pulled from a corner of the living room.

She started up the ladder as he swung the cool box on to the deck, but then he reached down again, and she held up the carrier bag and this he also took.

A carrier bag of reinforced paper was slung over Kadiatu's shoulder, clinking with every movement.

She could start by saving her breath,' added Eve putting everything into a carrier bag.

I visited Voting Right, Laurentide Ice and Upper Gumtree, who all graciously allowed me to dip into their drink With Leslie Brown's pen, we wrote the provenance of each sample on the sauce label and put all four containers into a plastic carrier bag which Leslie Brown happened to have handy.

He gave the bottle a good shake and put it, with its entangled attachment, in the duty-free carrier bag.