DCHP-2

honey bag DCHP-2 (November 2016)

• n. — Euphemism, Outdoors, Territories, especially Northwest Territories

  a plastic bag used to line a receptacle that serves as a latrine (see Image 1).

  Type: 5. Frequency — The term honey bag is a euphemism for a green or black plastic garbage bag placed inside a sewage bucket to hold human excrement (see the 1977 quotation). Thus, a "honey bag system" (see Image 1) describes a type of bagged sewage setup (see City of Yellowknife reference) in which plastic garbage bags are used instead of flush toilets (see the 1979 quotation). As seen in Chart 1, the term is most frequent in Canada's Northern areas, notably the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and the Yukon. Activities such as the "honey bag toss" or "honey bag hockey" are played alongside other northern pastimes (see the 1988 and 2013 quotations).
  See also COD-2, s.v. "honey bag", which is marked "Cdn (North) informal" and Gage-5, s.v. "honey bag", which is marked "Cdn. Slang".
  
  

  See also: honey bucket  

  • Honey bucket is the container holding the honey bag in place (see Chart 2).