abstract:A bindle is the bag, sack, or carrying device stereotypically used by the commonly American sub-culture of hobos. The person carrying a bindle was called a bindlestiff, combining bindle with the Average Joe sense of stiff.
Asshe began to open her purse, the officer writes, "I saw a small bindleofwhatIbelieved to becocaine in a clear baggie begin to fallfrom the purseandintomyhand.