sack

Definition of sack in English English dictionary: The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city
The sack of Rome.; In the phrase sack out, to fall asleep. See also hit the sack
The kids all sacked out before 9:00 on New Year’s Eve.; To tackle, usually to tackle the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage before he is able to throw a pass
On third down, the rejuvenated Rickey Jackson stormed in over All-Pro left tackle Richmond Webb to sack Marino yet again for a 2-yard loss.; The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity type and according to local usage; an old English measure of weight, usually of wool, equal to 13 stone (182 pounds), or in other sources, 26 stone (364 pounds)
Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stone.; Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position, usually as give (someone) the sack or get the sack. See verb sense4 below
He got the sack for being late all the time.; The scrotum
He got passed the ball, but it hit him in the sack.; (also sacque) A kind of loose-fitting gown or dress with sleeves which hangs from the shoulders, such as a gown with a Watteau back or sack-back, fashionable in the late 17th to 18th century; or, formerly, a loose-fitting hip-length jacket, cloak or cape
Molly, therefore, having dressed herself out in this sack, with a new laced cap, and some other ornaments which Tom had given her, repairs to church with her fan in her hand the very next Sunday.; To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from
It was part of the spoils which he had taken when he sacked the city of Eetion.; A successful tackle of the quarterback. See verb sense3 below; Bed; usually as hit the sack or in the sack. See also sack out; One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base
He twisted his ankle sliding into the sack at second.; To put in a sack or sacks
The gold was sacked in moose-hide bags, fifty pounds to the bag.; To discharge from a job or position; to fire
Boris Berezovsky on Friday dismissed President Boris Yeltsin's move to sack him from his post as executive secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States,.; Loot or booty obtained by pillage; A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine from southern Europe; sherry
Thou art so fat-witted, with drinking of old sack...let a cup of sack be my poison...Wherein is he good, but to taste sack and drink it?.; A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel; {n} a bag of 3 bushels, quantity, woman's robe, storm of a town, plunder, canary-wine; {v} to put into sacks, take by storm, rob; The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage; a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist; In the phrase , to go to sleep; To hit a person (usually male) in the groin; to rack; A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch; A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam; a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swing easily; A sack is a large bag made of rough woven material. Sacks are used to carry or store things such as vegetables or coal. a sack of potatoes; White wines from Spain and the Canaries; the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter; "the sack of Rome" a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases a woman's full loose hiplength jacket any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry) the quantity contained in a sack put in a sack; "The grocer sacked the onions" plunder (a town) after capture; "the barbarians sacked Rome; plunder (a town) after capture; "the barbarians sacked Rome"; a woman's full loose hiplength jacket; A quantity of cement, 94 pounds, I cubic foot, in the United States for portland or air entraining portland cement or as indicated on the sack for other kinds of cement; A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance; The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels; an enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air"; kies salt malh Saturday yown is-sabt save waffer safety amaan set the slips hot slips short osayer shorter aasar shovel shibel sledge hammer shakoosh kabir sleep noum slowly shwai shwai smaller asghar soup shurba speak slowly takallam besch wesch spoon maalaka sugar sokkar Sunday yowm il-ahad; {i} large burlap or canvas bag; backpack or other bag; dismissal from employment; instance of plundering, pillage; style of loose-fitting dress; type of white wine; amount of material that fills one sack; the quantity contained in a sack; a tackle of the quarterback behind his line of scrimmage; Some people refer to bed as the sack. Any of various light, dry, strong wines from Spain and the Canary Islands, imported to England in the 16th and 17th centuries; the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter; "the sack of Rome"; If your employers sack you, they tell you that you can no longer work for them because you have done something that they did not like or because your work was not good enough. Earlier today the Prime Minister sacked 18 government officials for corruption = fire Sack is also a noun. People who make mistakes can be given the sack the same day; Dismissal from employment, in the phrase get the sack or give (someone) the sack; plunder (a town) after capture; "the barbarians sacked Rome; The amount a sack holds; OED: "A general name for a class of white wines formerly imported from Spain and the Canaries " This includes, but is not limited to, sherry; n sak; To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn; the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart); bed, in the phrase hit the sack. See also; To tackle; usually to tackle the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage before he is able to throw a pass; To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders; To fire, or remove someone from employment; When one team tackles the other team's quarterback behind the line of scrimmage; An old English measure of weight, usually of wool, equal to 13 stone (182 pounds); a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases a woman's full loose hiplength jacket any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry) the quantity contained in a sack put in a sack; "The grocer sacked the onions"; To tackle the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage before a forward pass can be thrown; A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines; See 2d Sac, 2; terminate the employment of; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"; any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry); a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases; Originally, a loosely hanging garment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing sack; make as a net profit; "The company cleared $1 million"; To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage; Tackling the quarterback before he can throw a pass; put in a sack; "The grocer sacked the onions"; {f} dismiss from employment, fire; plunder, pillage; put in a sack, pack into a bag; tackling the quarterback before he can get off a pass
sack out: To fall asleep, usually from implied exhaustion
The kids sacked out in the back seat before we made it home.
sack race: A race in which competitors stand in a sack or similar item and try to be the first to jump to the finish line
sack races: plural form of sack race
sack-whey: An alcoholic drink of sherry with whey (weak milk) and sugar
Won't you allow him sack-whey? said the landlady.—Ay, ay, sack-whey, cries the doctor, if you will, provided it be very small..
sack time: Time spent in bed having sex, sleeping or just being lazy. (Comes from old slang term for mattress: sack.)
sack coat: man's hiplength coat with a straight back; the jacket of a suit
sack coat: short loose-fitting coat or jacket with a straight back worn by men
sack duty: obligation to sleep, duty to sleep; amount of time required for sleep
sack in: lie down to sleep
sack lunch: light afternoon meal packed to be eaten in a different location
sack out: go to bed to sleep
sack race: A race in which the contestants compete by jumping forward with their legs enclosed in a sack. a race in which the competitors, usually children, have to jump forwards with both legs inside a sack
sack race: a novelty race in which competitors jump ahead with their feet confined in a sack
sack race: comical running race, race where people are tied into bags and fall to the ground constantly
sack up: make as a net profit; "The company cleared $1 million"
Santa sack: A sack used for transporting Christmas presents
sad sack: A perennial victim of misfortune
sad sack: An incompetent or inept person
sad sack: An extremely inept or clumsy person
sad sack: (Informal) incompetent person (usually a soldier); person who makes mistakes due to incompetence
Hacky-Sack: a small, multi-colored bean bag
back, crack and sack: A beauty treatment for men in which hair is removed from the back, from between the buttocks ("crack") and from the scrotum ("sack")
bivouac sack: waterproof fabric shell designed to slip over a sleeping bag
cat in the sack: Something to be suspicious of
dub sack: A bag of marijuana costing $20
get the sack: To be dismissed from employment
gunny sack: A sack, made from burlap, used for agricultural produce
hacky sack: A game or activity in which one tries to keep a footbag off the ground using only the feet
hacky sack: The foot bag used for such a game
hit the sack: To go to bed
K.P. Arches—Like a housewife who spends a day on the range, a soldier gets tired feet and is eager to hit the sack.
sacker: someone that plunders a village
demon in the sack: (Ev ile ilgili) A person who is very good in bed
sacker: {n} one who plunders or takes by storm
sackful: {n} a sack filled, a fulness to the very top
sacking: {n} a cloth for sacks, a taking by storm
Hacky Sack: {i} ® company that produces footbags; brand name of a footbag
dressing sack: a woman's loose jacket; worn while dressing
gave him the sack: fired him, discharged him from employment
gave the sack: fired, discharged from employment
get the sack: be fired from a job, be discharged
give the sack to: fire, discharge
got the sack: was fired, was dismissed, was kicked out
hit the sack: {f} go to sleep; prepare to go to sleep
hit the sack: go to bed in order to sleep; "I usually turn in at midnight"; "He turns out at the crack of dawn"
put to sack: rob; plunder, steal
sacked: past of sack
sacked: having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence; "the raped countryside"
sacked: {s} ravaged, that has been robbed and destroyed by force and violence, pillaged
sacker: One who sacks; one who takes part in the storm and pillage of a town
sacker: {i} one who dismisses a person from a job; plunderer, pillager, looter; one who packs items into sacks
sackful: {i} amount of material that fills one sack
sackful: The amount a sack would contain
sackful: Bent on plunder
sackful: As much as a sack will hold
sackful: A sackful is the amount of something that a sack contains or could contain. a sackful of presents = sack
sacking: the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
sacking: Firing or termination of an employee
sacking: coarse fabric used for bags or sacks
sacking: present participle of sack
sacking: Cheap rough cloth such as would be used to make bags (sacks)
sacking: are made
sacking: Sacking is rough woven material that is used to make sacks
sacking: Stout, coarse cloth of which sacks, bags, etc
sacking: A sacking is when an employer tells a worker to leave their job. the sacking of twenty-three thousand miners
sacking: {i} sackcloth, coarse fabric used to make sacks
sacks: plural of sack
sacks: third-person singular of sack

sack

Turkish pronunciation

säk

Synonyms

bag, tote, poke, axe, pink slip, give the boot, get the chop, give the elbow, give somebody the heave-ho, hay, rack, ballsack, ball sack, nutsack, loot

Antonyms

employ, hire, guard, protect, save

Pronunciation

/ˈsak/ /ˈsæk/

Etymology

[ 'sak ] (noun.) before 12th century. Middle English sak 'bag, sackcloth', from Old English sacc 'bag', sæcc 'sackcloth', from Proto-Germanic *sakkiz 'sack' (compare Dutch zak, German Sack, Swedish säkk), from Latin saccus 'large bag', from Ancient Greek σάκκος (sákkos) 'bag of coarse cloth', from Phoenician (compare Hebrew שַׂק (śaq) 'sack, sackcloth', Akkadian