Definition
Something or someone not needed or not wanted; something or someone of little use or importance; something or someone considered burdensome.
A dubious or unhelpful mental outlook, emotional disposition, or personal history.
In Context
- "Come on, you dog-gone, bullnecked, beetlebrowed, hogjowled, peanutbrained, weaseleyed four flushers, false alarms and excess baggage!"
- "Exiles and refugees . . . are likely to find the old ways and old language excess baggage, especially if their adopted homeland is the U.S., where the race is to the swift and the adaptable."
- "A chin-whiskered man in Walla-Walla, carrying a line of hope as excess baggage, had grubstaked us."
- "The Pirates entered the season lugging no one's expectations as excess baggage."
- "Every candidate for public office probably has some excess baggage to carry around that he'd rather not have. With Sen. John Kerry, it's undoubtedly his anti-Vietnam War activism."
See Also
- dead weight