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View definitions for carry on

carry on

verb as in continue activity

verb as in manage operations

verb as in lose control emotionally

noun as in small suitcase

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On a flight to Miami last summer, a laptop in a carry-on bag started smoking, causing the evacuation of the flight while it was still at the gate; three passengers were injured.

From Slate

They pulled out the skull that authorities said they had secreted inside a jacket in their carry-on luggage.

A woman flying from Los Angeles to Pennsylvania wound up on the TSA’s naughty list after an officer discovered a trove of almost 90 forbidden items inside her carry-on.

I’d seen his face once before in the background of the Netflix action movie, “Carry-On.”

I carry these treasures home each year in a frozen plastic tub tucked in my carry-on, feeling their weight as more than confection.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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