an incident in which people, esp sportsmen, fight or threaten to fight, but without real intent to inflict harm (esp in the phrases handbags at dawn, handbags at twenty paces, etc)
Examples of 'handbags' in a sentence
handbags
Shoes and even handbags which had some slight defect did not get sent abroad but could be sold in the home market as export rejects.
Butler, Gwendoline COFFIN ON THE WATER (2004)
This was a flowered tapestry satchel about the size of the handbags many women carried as a matter of course.