Definitions for Sacks

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Sacks sack

Spelling: [sak]

IPA: /sæk/

Sacks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 40 anagrams from letters in Sacks (ackss).

Definitions for Sacks

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 Sacks

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 Sacks

On the face of it, sacks is describing a different person from the thoughtful, often quiet man I met in California.

That sack of Capua is one of the most horrid pages in the horrid history of sacks.

MARTA: With sacks of money and the anti-Communist tactics of your Senator Jzo-ay McCarthy.

Seeds, and various kinds of grain, are liable to damage when kept in sacks or bins, from the want of being sufficiently aired.

At one rally in Mississippi, a large group of them showed up, Jackson remembers, with “sacks on their heads.”

I give them the sacks to keep for a while after I left the store.

Pouches and sacks are also hung in racks to be distributed into.

sacks discusses this surreal experience with great humor, but he makes no bones about his misgivings.

These consisted of the packing of clothes into trunks, bags, sacks, and hampers.

Victims were put into sacks, speared, and thrown into the Congo River.