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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Taken onto an airplane (or a ferry, etc.) with a passenger, rather than checked..
It's a compact suitcase, but it makes a good carry-on bag.
Do you think they'll accept my ski poles as carry-on?
Sometimes all this carry-on about race, religion and sex seems so petty and silly that I cannot take it seriously.
"I love salad",she dared when it came to the next course, and then inwardly cringed when it seemed that that was actually a special order and there was such a carry-on about what kind of salad she wanted.
The stopping, restarting, swearing and routine self-deprecation ("I'm in trouble with the vicar – eternal trouble," quips Martin) is the kind of carry-on that has fans purring with pleasure.
Use carry-on when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Carry-on means Taken onto an airplane (or a ferry, etc.) with a passenger, rather than checked..
Common synonyms include hand, personal, cabin, flight.
Possible antonyms include checked.
It's a compact suitcase, but it makes a good carry-on bag.
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