plural of handbag
"She arranged her colorful handbags on the bench before entering the store."
Said jocularly in response to a particularly derogatory, bitchy or catty dialogue; calm down; cool it.
"When her friend started making snide comments about my outfit, I just sighed and said handbags before walking away."
The slang term "fighting with handbags" originated in the 1980s as a humorous shortening of phrases like "handbags at dawn," which described women's altercations. The word itself is simply formed by combining "handbag" and the plural suffix "-s.