carry-on

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.

That luggage or baggage which is taken onto an airplane (or a ferry, etc.) with a passenger, rather than checked.

Do you think they'll accept my ski poles as carry-on?

That luggage or baggage which is taken onto an airplane (or a ferry, etc.) with a passenger, rather than checked.

"THAT'S NOT MY CARRY-ON, THOSE WOULD NEVER GET THROUGH SECURITY. ALSO YOU'RE GROUNDED"

A palaver; a disorderly or absurd situation.

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.