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noun
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a large bag of strong, coarsely woven material, as for grain, potatoes, or coal.
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the amount a sack holds.
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a bag: a sack of candy.
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EXPANDSlang. bed: I bet he's still in the sack.
verb (used with object)
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to put into a sack or sacks.
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Slang. to dismiss or discharge, as from a job.
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Hit the sack
is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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Idiomssack out, Slang. to go to bed; fall asleep.
13.
hit the sack, Slang. to go to bed; go to sleep: He never hits the sack before midnight.
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hold the sack. bag (def. 26).
Origin:
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
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
Related forms
sack·like, adjective
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Word Origin & History
sack
"to plunder," 1549, from M.Fr. sac, in the phrase mettre à sac "put it in a bag," a military leader's command to his troops to plunder a city (parallel to It. sacco, with the same range of meaning), from V.L. *saccare "to plunder," originally "to put plundered things into a sack," from L. saccus
EXPAND"bag" (see sack (n.1)). The notion is probably of putting booty in a bag. This is the root of the verb in the U.S. football sense (1969).
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Slang Dictionary
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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