sack out
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.
5.
Slang. bed: I bet he's still in the sack.
6.
Also, sacque.
a.
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.
b.
a loose-fitting coat, jacket, or cape.
7.
Baseball. a base.
8.
South Midland U.S. the udder of a cow.
verb (used with object)
9.
to put into a sack or sacks.
10.
11.
Slang. to dismiss or discharge, as from a job.
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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| 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. |
12.
Idioms sack 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.
14.
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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sack1 (sæk) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a large bag made of coarse cloth, thick paper, etc, used as a container |
| 2. | Also called: sackful the amount contained in a sack, sometimes used as a unit of measurement |
| 3. | a. a woman's loose tube-shaped dress |
| b. Also called: sacque a woman's full loose hip-length jacket, worn in the 18th and mid-20th centuries | |
| 4. | short for rucksack |
| 5. | (Austral) cricket Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): bye 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. | informal the sack dismissal from employment |
| 7. | a slang word for bed |
| 8. | slang hit the sack to go to bed |
| 9. | (NZ) rough as sacks uncouth |
| —vb | |
| 10. | informal to dismiss from employment |
| 11. | to put into a sack or sacks |
| [Old English sacc, from Latin saccus bag, from Greek sakkos; related to Hebrew saq] | |
| 'sacklike1 | |
| —adj | |
| sack2 (sæk) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the plundering of a place by an army or mob, usually involving destruction, slaughter, etc |
| 2. | American football a tackle on a quarterback which brings him down before he has passed the ball |
| —vb | |
| 3. | (tr) to plunder and partially destroy (a place) |
| 4. | American football to tackle and bring down a quarterback before he has passed the ball |
| [C16: from French phrase mettre à sac, literally: to put (loot) in a sack, from Latin saccus | |
| 'sacker2 | |
| —n | |
| sack3 (sæk) | |
| —n | |
| archaic or trademark any dry white wine formerly imported into Britain from SW Europe | |
| [C16 wyne seck, from French vin sec dry wine, from Latin siccus dry] | |
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Word Origin & History
sack
"large bag," O.E. sacc (W.Saxon), sec (Mercian), sæc (Old Kentish) "large cloth bag," also "sackcloth," from P.Gmc. *sakkiz (cf. M.Du. sak, O.H.G. sac, O.N. sekkr, but Goth. sakkus probably is directly from Gk.), an early borrowing from L. saccus (cf. O.Fr. sac, Sp. saco, It. sacco), from Gk. sakkos,
from Semitic (cf. Heb. saq "sack"). The wide spread of the word is probably due to the story of Joseph. Slang meaning "bunk, bed" is from 1825, originally nautical. The verb meaning "go to bed" is recorded from 1946.
sack
"a dismissal from work," 1825, from sack (n.1), perhaps from the notion of the worker going off with his tools in a bag; the original formula was to give (someone) the sack. It is attested earlier in Fr. (on luy a donné son sac, 17c.) and M.Du. (iemand den zak geven).
The verb is recorded from 1841.
sack
"sherry," 1531, alteration of Fr. vin sec "dry wine," from L. siccus "dry."
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
"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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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Idioms & Phrases
sack out
Go to sleep, go to bed, as in We sacked out about midnight. This slangy idiom is a verbal use of the noun sack, slang for "bed" since about 1940; it alludes to a sleeping bag and appears in such similar phrases as in the sack, in bed, and sack time, bedtime.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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