Words & TermsFood and drink
mystery bag
A sausage, in Australian rhyming slang (bag rhyming with snag).
In a sentence
In this historical or contextual use, “mystery bag” means a sausage, in Australian rhyming slang (bag rhyming with snag).
Where it came from
The Australian National Dictionary Centre explicitly lists mystery bag = snag/sausage among Australian rhyming-slang examples.
- Initial era
- 1950–1999
- Where used
- Australian use; no narrower regional pattern established