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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
carry-on
I.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Business, first-class and Concorde passengers will be permitted two larger, heavier carry-ons.
▪ But there was a lot of boring administrative carry-on to be dealt with.
▪ Getting my pullman bag, two carry-ons and a luggage carrier on to a double-decker bus was a sweat-producing experience.
▪ It was a mystery though why Salt joined their odd carry-on.
▪ Its the underhand way you went about the heavy petting and damp carry-on, Douglas.
▪ Of course, there was a lot of carry-on about the way Eb went, from what I hear.
▪ Such a carry-on Sally-Anne had never seen, and all of it exhausting.
▪ You've made it impossible for him to change his mind, with your carry-on in public.
II.adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Hidden city tickets are risky unless used only for one-way travel by people with carry-on luggage.
▪ Keep medications, credit cards and glasses in your carry-on bag.
▪ Passenger's carry-on baggage is x-rayed.
▪ The way I see it, anything with wheels is by definition not carry-on luggage.
▪ There were 28 hijackings of U-S. passenger aircraft in 1972, despite profiling to determine whose carry-on luggage would be X-rayed.
▪ Tighter airline scrutiny of the size and amount of carry-on luggage.
Wiktionary
carry-on

a. Taken onto an airplane with a passenger, rather than checked. n. 1 That luggage or baggage which is taken onto an airplane with a passenger, rather than checked. 2 (context British NZ English) An activity that is done in an excessively excitable or anxious manner.

Usage examples of "carry-on".

In her carry-on, in addition to a more feminine outfit, she had a black L.

Gathering my carry-ons, I went through the jetport into the terminal, then down the concourse, past the security point to the spot where my driver usually met me.

It was like a well-brought-up cousin of that daft carry-on with the forefinger and the pinkie that metalheads did.

Teddy Tumtum said, hauling himself to the top of the carry-on bag and holding onto one of the handles.

The first thing she did after fastening her seat belt was to dig Teddy Tumtum out of her carry-on bag and wave a piece of parchment in his furry face.

She ignored the general carry-on about her as Sean’s wing cavorted with her riders, babbling the good news and going into specific detail at the top of their lungs.

She had food in her carry-on, but that was for emergencies, and this didn't qualify.

The traveler recovered his two-suiter from the carousel, and with his carry-on slung on his other shoulder, picked a line to stand in, in his hand held his entry card, which declared nothing of interest to the United States government.

Perky gate attendants in jaunty, improbable hats zero in on Filipinos with too many carry-ons, and subject them to a public ritual of filling out little tags and surrendering their possessions.

Then he lifted his carry-on bag and walked off to the first-class lounge to wait for the flight to Dallas-Fort Worth.

Her carry-on bag banged against her legs, further hampering her, but she didn't dare leave it behind.

The guy took his carry-on bag, but Dennis hung on to his notebook computer.

Take all the little complimentary soaps and shampoos from the bathroom and put them in my carry-on bag.

She wore jeans that looked so neat they must have been pressed, a white short-sleeved shirt that was sheer enough that she'd put a spaghetti strap tank top under it, and a brown leather purse almost as large as my carry-on bag.

He locked the stall from the inside, and then launched himself off the toilet tissue dispenser and vaulted the door, landing an instant before a man in a business suit entered, dragging his wheeled carry-on.