Sack (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. a large bag of strong, coarsely woven material, as for grain, potatoes, or coal.
  2. the amount a sack holds.
  3. a bag: a sack of candy.
  4. dismissal or discharge, as from a job: to get the sack.
  5. bed, often as the site of sexual activity: It's past noon, but I bet that lazybones is still in the sack.If you want the relationship to be more than just a night in the sack, you have to work at it.
  6. Also sacque .
    • a loose-fitting dress, as a gown with a Watteau back, especially one fashionable in the late 17th century and much of the 18th century.
    • a loose-fitting coat, jacket, or cape.
  7. a base.
  8. the udder of a cow.
verb (used with object)
  1. to put into a sack or sacks.
  2. to tackle (the quarterback) behind the line of scrimmage before the quarterback is able to throw a pass.
  3. to dismiss or discharge, as from a job.
Verb Phrases
  1. to go to bed; fall asleep.
Idioms
  1. to go to bed; go to sleep: He never hits the sack before midnight.
  2. bag (def. 30).
verb (used with object)
  1. to pillage or loot after capture; plunder: to sack a city.
noun
  1. the plundering of a captured place; pillage: the sack of Troy.
noun
  1. a strong light-colored wine formerly imported from Spain and the Canary Islands.
noun
  1. a large bag made of coarse cloth, thick paper, etc, used as a container
  2. the amount contained in a sack, sometimes used as a unit of measurement
    • a woman's loose tube-shaped dress
    • a woman's full loose hip-length jacket, worn in the 18th and mid-20th centuries
  4. short for rucksack
  5. a run scored off a ball not struck by the batsman: allotted to the team as an extra and not to the individual batsman
  6. dismissal from employment
  7. a slang word for bed
  8. to go to bed
  9. uncouth
verb (tr)
  1. to dismiss from employment
  2. to put into a sack or sacks
noun
  1. the plundering of a place by an army or mob, usually involving destruction, slaughter, etc
  2. a tackle on a quarterback which brings him down before he has passed the ball
verb
  1. to plunder and partially destroy (a place)
  2. to tackle and bring down a quarterback before he has passed the ball
noun
  1. any dry white wine formerly imported into Britain from SW Europe
Sack (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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