sack

A sack is a bag. In some parts of the country, store clerks put your stuff in a sack, but in other parts the same stuff goes in a bag. Sack is also an exciting verb.

While a sack is often just a bag, as a verb it can do a lot more. A boss might sack, or fire, an employee who’s no longer needed. In American football, if you sack a quarterback, you tackle him. This comes from the other meaning of sack, which is to raid and plunder a town, like when the Visigoths sacked Rome. If someone says they’re going to hit the sack, don’t worry, they’re just going to bed.

Primary Meanings of sack

1.	n v	a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases put in a sack
2.	n	a woman's full loose hiplength jacket
3.	n	a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily
4.	n v	the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter plunder (a town) after capture
5.	n v	the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
6.	n	any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry)

Full Definitions of sack

n a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases

Synonyms:: carrier bag, paper bag, poke

Types:: doggie bag, doggy bag
a bag for food that a customer did not eat at a restaurant; the transparent pretense is that the food is taken home to feed the customer's dog; grocery bag
a sack for holding customer's groceries

Type of:: bag
a flexible container with a single opening

n the quantity contained in a sack

Synonyms:: sackful

Type of:: containerful
the quantity that a container will hold

n an enclosed space

Synonyms:: pocket, pouch, sac

Type of:: cavity, enclosed space
space that is surrounded by something

v put in a sack

“The grocer sacked the onions”

Type of:: case, encase, incase
enclose in, or as if in, a case

v make as a net profit

Synonyms:: clear, net, sack up

: bring in, clear, earn, gain, make, pull in, realise, realize, take in
earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages; clear, net
yield as a net profit

Type of:: benefit, gain, profit
derive a benefit from

n a woman's full loose hiplength jacket

Synonyms:: sacque

Type of:: jacket
a short coat

n a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist

Synonyms:: chemise, shift

Type of:: dress, frock
a one-piece garment for a woman; has skirt and bodice

n a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily

Synonyms:: hammock

Type of:: bed
a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep

n the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter

“the sack of Rome”

Type of:: pillage, pillaging, plundering
the act of stealing valuable things from a place

v plunder (a town) after capture

“the barbarians sacked Rome”

Synonyms:: plunder

Type of:: take
take by force

n the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

Synonyms:: discharge, dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sacking

Types:: show 8 types...; hide 8 types...; superannuation
the act of discharging someone because of age (especially to cause someone to retire from service on a pension); conge, congee
an abrupt and unceremonious dismissal; removal
dismissal from office; deactivation, inactivation
breaking up a military unit (by transfers or discharges); honorable discharge
a discharge from the armed forces with a commendable record; dishonorable discharge
a discharge from the armed forces for a grave offense (as sabotage or espionage or cowardice or murder); Section Eight
a discharge from the US Army based on unfitness or character traits deemed undesirable; purge
an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place

Type of:: conclusion, ending, termination
the act of ending something

v terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position

Synonyms:: can, dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, send away, terminate

Antonyms:: employ, engage, hire
engage or hire for work

Types:: show 8 types...; hide 8 types...; retire
make (someone) retire; pension off
let go from employment with an attractive pension; clean out
force out; furlough, lay off
dismiss, usually for economic reasons; squeeze out
force out; dismiss, drop, send away, send packing
stop associating with; superannuate
retire and pension (someone) because of age or physical inability; downsize
dismiss from work

Type of:: remove
remove from a position or an office

n any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry)

Type of:: white wine
pale yellowish wine made from white grapes or red grapes with skins removed before fermentation

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sac / sack

Primary Meanings of sack

n a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases

n the quantity contained in a sack

n an enclosed space

v put in a sack

v make as a net profit

n a woman's full loose hiplength jacket

n a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist

n a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily

n the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter

v plunder (a town) after capture

n the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

v terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position

n any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry)

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Primary Meanings of sack

n a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases

n the quantity contained in a sack

n an enclosed space

v put in a sack

v make as a net profit

n a woman's full loose hiplength jacket

n a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist

n a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily

n the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter

v plunder (a town) after capture

n the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

v terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position

n any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry)

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