Pocketbook, purse, bag, handbag
pants, slacks, trousers
pop, soda, tonic, soft drink - and in certain parts of the country, soda = soda-water and tonic is only tonic-water. So if you go to those places and ask for either of those two things, that's what you get.
Milk shake, shake, frappe, thick shake - in Boston, it used to be that a milk shake would get you milk, with syrup, shaken. If you wanted what the rest of the country calls a shake, you'd have to ask for a frappe. Bostonians are smarter than the average bear though and figured out what you mean.
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