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Definition of suitcase noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

suitcase

noun
 
/ˈsuːtkeɪs/
 
/ˈsuːtkeɪs/
(also case)
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  1. a case with flat sides and a handle, used for carrying clothes, etc. when you are travelling
    • to pack/unpack a suitcase
    Extra Examples
    • He stuffed a few clothes in a suitcase and left.
    • His only possession was a battered old suitcase of clothes.
    • She snapped her suitcase shut and stuck on a label.
    • The money was smuggled out in a false-bottomed suitcase.
    • She checked in her suitcase and went for a coffee.
    • The customs officer told him to open his suitcase.
    • He got fed up of living out of a suitcase and left his job as a sales rep.
    Topics Holidaysa2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • heavy
    • light
    • open
    verb + suitcase
    • cram something in/​into
    • pack
    • stuff something in/​into
    suitcase + verb
    • be crammed with something
    • be full of something
    • be stuffed with something
    preposition
    • in a/​the suitcase
    • inside a/​the suitcase
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See suitcase in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

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