sack
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Is sack a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.Examples: "the sack of Rome"uncountable
2. (uncountable) Loot or booty obtained by pillage.Synonyms: bootyuncountable
3. (American football) A successful tackle of the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage.
4. (baseball) One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.Examples: "He twisted his ankle sliding into the sack at second."
5. (informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position.Examples: "give (someone) the sack"; "get the sack"; "The boss is gonna give her the sack today."Synonyms: the axeinformal
6. (colloquial, US, literally or figurative) Bed.Examples: "hit the sack"; "in the sack"Synonyms: hayUScolloquialfigurativelyliterally
verb (English)
1. (American football) To tackle the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage, especially before he is able to throw a pass.Examples: "On third down, the rejuvenated Rickey Jackson stormed in over All-Pro left tackle Richmond Webb to sack Marino yet again for a 2-yard loss."
2. (informal, transitive) To discharge from a job or position; to fire.Examples: "He was sacked last September."; "[…] Boris Berezovsky on Friday dismissed President Boris Yeltsin's move to sack him from his post as executive secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States, […]"; "Waste my time working for cowards and creeps / Oh I wish that they'd sack me and leave me to sleep"Synonyms: axe, can, decruit, dehire, discard, remove, discharge, dismissinformaltransitive
3. (Australia, slang, transitive) To give up on, to abandon, delay, to not think about someone or something.Examples: "Sack the homework."; "Sack him, let's run."Synonyms: fuck, forget, screwAustraliaslangtransitive
noun (English)
1. (dated) A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine from southern Europe; sherry.Examples: "Wilt pleaſe your Lord drink a cup of ſacke? […] I am Christophero Sly, call not mee Honour nor Lordship: I ne're drank ſacke in my life: […]"; "Giue me a Cup of Sacke, Rogue. Is there no Vertue extant?"; "How cam'ſt thou hither? / Sweare by this Bottle how thou cam'ſt hither: I eſcap'd / vpon a But of Sacke, which the Saylors heaued o'reboord, by this Bottle which I made of the barke of a Tree, with mine owne hands, since I was caſt a'ſhore."countabledateduncountable
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