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名詞

black bag (plural black bags)

1. (UK, Ireland) A black plastic sack produced for the disposal of household waste.

   The road was full of black bags awaiting the arrival of the dustbin men.

2. (chiefly US) The pouch or case traditionally carried by medical doctors, especially when making house calls, and containing medical instruments and supplies.
3. A pouch or case containing burglary tools.
4. Synonym of football (“the leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans which is always near the US President”)

同意語

• (sack for disposal of waste) garbage bag, trash bag (US); rubbish bag (UK)
• (bag containing medical instruments): medical bag

派生語

• black bag job, black bag operation

語源

From the term black bag meaning a case containing burglary tools. Sense 2 refers to the practice of blindfolding a detainee with a bag or sack.

形容詞

black-bag (not comparable)

1. Involving sophisticated clandestine methods for gaining unauthorized entry and obtaining information.

   Watergate turned out to be a black-bag operation by former CIA employees.

   • 2011, Jerry Ahern, Decision Time: The Defender, →ISBN:

     Holden's SEAL training had covered clandestine penetrations, but never black-bag jobs

   • 2012, Paul Lieberman, Gangster Squad: Covert Cops, the Mob, and the Battle for Los Angeles, →ISBN:

     Con Keeler was past his fortieth birthday and a veteran of more black-bag jobs than he could count.

   • 2015, James Wynbrandt, The Excruciating History of Dentistry, →ISBN:

     In an interesting coda that perhaps presaged the black-bag jobs of the Watergate era, an unknown person or persons broke into Dr. Parr's office on New York's Forty-second street in 1926, gained access to the safe, and stole President Grant's, Mrs. Grant's, and President Chester Arthur's dentures.

動詞

black-bag (third-person singular simple present black-bags, present participle black-bagging, simple past and past participle black-bagged)

1. To break in to a place without authorization as part of a clandestine operation.
   • 2004, Loren D. Estleman, Poison Blonde: An Amos Walker Novel, →ISBN:

     He'd been tapped, bugged, and black-bagged under Nixon and Clinton, and under the present conditions all the cops needed to listen in was a thumbs-up from an Eagle Scout or better.

   • 2011, Adrian Phoenix, J. F. Lewis, Jeri Smith-Ready, Urban Fantasy Collection, →ISBN:

     Nothing jimmied. Nothing damaged. She'd been black-bagged by a pro.

   • 2011, Harlan Coben (Ed.), The Best American Mystery Stories 2011:

     Before dawn, NEST black-bagged Ivan's building — not the Nuclear Emergency Search Teams, their shadows whose S stands for Strike. They pulled all hazmat out of the medical imaging office, substituted fake material, and broke the machines so nobody will wonder when they don't work.

2. To kidnap in order to make someone disappear (as opposed to kidnapping for ransom).
   • 2016, S.M. Reine, Once Darkness Falls:

     When witches and demons caused enough trouble, the Union had a tendency to black-bag the baddies and toss them into a detention center.

   • 2017, Scott Reardon, The Prometheus Man, →ISBN:

     It'll be tough to black-bag him. They may have to go all the way.