bag people

English

Etymology

Calque of Russian мешочники (mešočniki), from the large sacks they often carried.

Noun

bag people pl (plural only)

  1. Small-scale peddlers or traders operating in the wake of economic and political collapse, often having been displaced from the cities into the countryside.
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