Sack Meaning and Definition

Word: Sack

How to pronounce: sæk

Noun

Definitions:

1. A large bag made of a strong material such as burlap, thick paper, or plastic, used for storing and carrying goods.

2. A woman's short loose unwaisted dress, typically narrowing at the hem, popular especially in the 1950s.A woman's long loose gown.A decorative piece of dress material fastened to the shoulders of a woman's gown in loose pleats and forming a long train, fashionable in the 18th century.

3. Dismissal from employment.

4. Bed, especially as regarded as a place for sex.

5. A base.

6. An act of tackling a quarterback behind the line of scrimmage before he can throw a pass.

Transitive verb

Definitions:

1. Dismiss from employment.

2. Tackle (a quarterback) behind the line of scrimmage before they can throw a pass.

3. Put into a sack or sacks.

Transitive verb

Definitions:

1. (chiefly in historical contexts) plunder and destroy (a captured town, building, or other place)

Example sentences: "The fort was rebuilt in AD 158 and was sacked again in AD 197"

Noun

Definitions:

1. The pillaging of a town or city.

Example sentences: "The sack of Rome"

Noun

Definitions:

1. A dry white wine formerly imported into Britain from Spain and the Canary Islands.

Example sentences: "In the Middle Ages many Alsace wines were fortified or spiced in order to compete with the fuller bodied Mediterranean wines such as sack and malmsey."

Synonyms:

pouch

bagful

sac

bag

bed

pocket

baggie

carrier bag

poke

retire

plunder

dismissal

firing

dismission

dismiss

displace

terminate

remove

fire

discharge

axe

loot

Derivations:

sacking

sackful

sacked

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Sack in Other Languages...

Spanish: Saco

German: Sack

French: Sac

Italian: Sacca

Turkish: çuval