sack

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sack1

▶noun

• 1 a large bag made of a material such as hessian or thick paper, used for storing and carrying goods.

  ■ (also sack dress) a woman's short, loose dress without a waistline, popular especially in the 1950s.

• 2 (the sack) informal dismissal from employment.

• 3 (the sack) informal, chiefly N. Amer. bed.

• 4 Baseball, informal a base.

• 5 American Football a tackle of a quarterback behind the line of scrimmage.

▶verb

• 1 informal dismiss from employment.

• 2 (sack out) N. Amer. informal go to sleep or bed.

• 3 American Football tackle with a sack.

• 4 put into a sack or sacks.

– phrases
hit the sack informal go to bed.

– derivatives
sackable adjective,
sackful noun (pl. sackfuls).

– origin OE sacc, from L. saccus ‘sack, sackcloth’, from Gk sakkos, of Semitic origin.

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sack2

▶verb plunder and destroy (used chiefly in historical contexts). ▶noun an instance of sacking.

– origin C16: from Fr. sac, in the phr. mettre à sac ‘put to sack’, on the model of Ital. fare il sacco, mettere a sacco, which perh. orig. referred to filling a sack with plunder.

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sack3

▶noun historical a dry white wine formerly imported into Britain from Spain and the Canaries.

– origin C16: from the phr. wyne seck, from Fr. vin sec ‘dry wine’.