hot-bag

English

Noun

hot-bag (plural hot-bags)

1. Alternative form of hot bag
   1. (bag that generates and/or holds heat, used as a hot compress)
      • 1880, Sidney Ringer, A Handbook of Therapeutics, page 87:

        The temperature of the hot-bag should not exceed 120°.

      • 1903 November 28, “Practical Points”, in The British Journal of Nursing, page 433:

        One reason that such occurrences are not found frequently is that the rubber hot-bag does not readily fit into the neck, but bottles will roll, and will stay snugly against the skin over the vessels of the neck.

      • 1914, William Samuel Sadler, Worry and nervousness, or, The science of self-mastery, page 420:

        Many cases of pain which do not yield to heat are relieved by the alternate use of the hot-bag and the ice-bag, or the alternation of fomentations and the ice-bag.

      • 2010, Mercedes Lackey, Brightly Burning:

        "Just keep on with this school as you have been, and you won't have a reason to feel sorry anymore," she said, spoiling his moment of contrition, as she put the hot-bag back on his forehead.

   2. (bag for keeping pizza hot during delivery)
      • 2012, Don Fred, Piscazzi’s Pizza:

        He had held a red pizza hot-bag horizontally on his arm.

      • 2014, Francis A Kwansa, H.G. Parsa, Quick Service Restaurants, Franchising, and Multi-Unit Chain Management, page 24:

        Domino's Pizza Inc. has created a new "hot-bag" technology to keep pizza hot and crisp during delivery.

      • 2016, Sierra Rose, Accidentally Married To The Billionaire:

        Then the exfoliation and the mud wrap, which was appallingly too warm and much more like being imprisoned in a Domino's pizza hot-bag than any sort of spa treatment.