suitcase

suitcase
(also case) noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ heavy, light
▪ open
▪ empty, full
▪ packed
▪ bulging
▪ battered
▪

His only possession was a battered old suitcase of clothes.

▪ leather
▪ rolling (AmE), wheelie (BrE)
▪

Elementary school students are now using rolling suitcases to haul their school books around.

▪

I pulled my wheelie suitcase along behind me.

▪ carry-on
VERB + SUITCASE
▪ cram sth in/into, pack, stuff sth in/into, throw sth in/into
▪

Have you packed your suitcase yet?

▪

He stuffed a few clothes in a suitcase and left.

▪ take sth out of, unpack
▪ fasten, shut, snap shut
▪

She snapped her suitcase shut and stuck on a label.

▪ open
▪ lift, pick up
▪

The suitcase was too heavy to lift.

▪ grab
▪ clutch, hold
▪ carry, drag, heave, lug, pull
▪

She heaved her suitcase down from the luggage rack.

▪

We had to lug our suitcases around for a week.

▪ drop, dump, put down
▪ live out of
▪

He got tired of living out of a suitcase and left his job as a sales rep.

SUITCASE + VERB
▪ be crammed with sth, be full of sth, be stuffed with sth, contain sth
▪

The suitcase was full of drugs.

PREPOSITION
▪ in a/the suitcase, inside a/the suitcase

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