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.
Definitions of sack
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a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases
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synonyms:
carrier bag, paper bag, poke
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types:
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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
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grocery bag
a sack for holding customer's groceries
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bag
a flexible container with a single opening
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doggie bag, doggy bag
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the quantity contained in a sack
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synonyms:
sackful
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containerful
the quantity that a container will hold
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containerful
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an enclosed space
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cavity, enclosed space
space that is surrounded by something
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cavity, enclosed space
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put in a sack
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make as a net profit
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a woman's full loose hiplength jacket
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a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
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a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily
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the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter“the sack of Rome”
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pillage, pillaging, plundering
the act of stealing valuable things from a place
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pillage, pillaging, plundering
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plunder (a town) after capture
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the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
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synonyms:
discharge, dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sacking
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superannuation
the act of discharging someone because of age (especially to cause someone to retire from service on a pension)
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conge, congee
an abrupt and unceremonious dismissal
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removal
dismissal from office
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deactivation, inactivation
breaking up a military unit (by transfers or discharges)
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honorable discharge
a discharge from the armed forces with a commendable record
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dishonorable discharge
a discharge from the armed forces for a grave offense (as sabotage or espionage or cowardice or murder)
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Section Eight
a discharge from the US Army based on unfitness or character traits deemed undesirable
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purge
an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place
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conclusion, ending, termination
the act of ending something
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terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
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synonyms:
can, dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, send away, terminate
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retire
make (someone) retire
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pension off
let go from employment with an attractive pension
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clean out
force out
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furlough, lay off
dismiss, usually for economic reasons
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squeeze out
force out
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dismiss, drop, send away, send packing
stop associating with
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superannuate
retire and pension (someone) because of age or physical inability
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downsize
dismiss from work
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remove
remove from a position or an office
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any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry)
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white wine
pale yellowish wine made from white grapes or red grapes with skins removed before fermentation
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white wine
Commonly confused words
sac / sack
Both are containers, but a sac is for plants and animals, and a sack is for a sandwich. So spiders put their eggs in a sac, and people put their groceries in a sack.
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