I. noun
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Business, first-class and Concorde passengers will be permitted two larger, heavier carry-ons.
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But there was a lot of boring administrative carry-on to be dealt with.
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Getting my pullman bag, two carry-ons and a luggage carrier on to a double-decker bus was a sweat-producing experience.
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It was a mystery though why Salt joined their odd carry-on .
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Its the underhand way you went about the heavy petting and damp carry-on , Douglas.
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Of course, there was a lot of carry-on about the way Eb went, from what I hear.
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Such a carry-on Sally-Anne had never seen, and all of it exhausting.
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You've made it impossible for him to change his mind, with your carry-on in public.
II. adjective
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Hidden city tickets are risky unless used only for one-way travel by people with carry-on luggage.
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Keep medications, credit cards and glasses in your carry-on bag.
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Passenger's carry-on baggage is x-rayed.
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The way I see it, anything with wheels is by definition not carry-on luggage.
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There were 28 hijackings of U-S. passenger aircraft in 1972, despite profiling to determine whose carry-on luggage would be X-rayed.
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Tighter airline scrutiny of the size and amount of carry-on luggage.