ledgebag

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Noun[edit]

ledgebag (plural ledgebags)

  1. (Ireland, slang) Synonym of lege (a legend; a person held in high regard)
    • 2016, Colm O'Regan, Bolloxology:
      Dinner isn't for three hours. If you're Someone's Cousin (see here) you can probably drink right through and become the ledgebag with his tie around his head for Journey's 'Don't Stop Believing' but not everyone can manage that.
    • 2017, Blindboy Boatclub, The Gospel According to Blindboy in 15 Short Stories:
      If ever there was proof of what a total ledgebag I am, I fucking step foot into a bog for the first time in my life and find a fucking bog body.

References[edit]

  • Tony Thorne (2014) “ledgebag”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  []: Bloomsbury