Definitions for SACK

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SACK sack

Spelling: [sak]

IPA: /sæk/

Sack is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in SACK (acks).

Definitions for SACK

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:
4. Slang. dismissal or discharge, as from a job:
5. Slang. bed:
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. Baseball. a base.
8. South Midland U.S. the udder of a cow.
9. the plundering of a captured place; pillage:
10. a strong light-colored wine formerly imported from Spain and the Canary Islands.

Idioms

1. hit the sack, Slang. to go to bed; go to sleep:
2. leave holding the sack. bag (def 28).

Verb phrases

1. sack out, Slang. to go to bed; fall asleep.

verb (used with object)

1. to put into a sack or sacks.
2. Football. to tackle (the quarterback) behind the line of scrimmage before the quarterback is able to throw a pass.
3. Slang. to dismiss or discharge, as from a job.
4. to pillage or loot after capture; plunder:

Origin of SACK

before 1000; 1940-45 for def 5; Middle English sak (noun), sakken (v.), Old English sacc (noun) Latin saccus bag, sackcloth Greek sákkos Semitic; compare Hebrew śaq

Examples for SACK

Last Sunday, he suited up for the Panthers, registering one sack and four tackles.

Then am I to be thrown down, like a sack, when it pleases them to run?

Andrew was barely in time to save the contents of the sack from her teeth.

But time will remember him most vividly for coining the term “sack,” as in “sacking the quarterback,” which he did a lot.

Listen, I took a pretty hard shot to the sack with that crash.

If ever you lose it I'll never own you for a friend, and I'll get you the sack from any place you're working in.

It is needless to say that sack is the wine preferred by him.

In order to prove his Ironborn status, he decides to lead a mini army to sack a depleted Winterfell when they least expect it.

He placed the sack absently in his pocket, still meditating other things.

For a moment, I measured the risk of carrying that sack in public.