How to pronounce “sack”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel.
• The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity type and according to local usage; an old English measure of weight, usually of wool, equal to 13 stone (182 pounds), or in other sources, 26 stone (364 pounds).
• (uncountable) The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
• (uncountable) Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
• (American football) A successful tackle of the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage.
• (baseball) One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
• (informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position.
• (colloquial, US, literally or figurative) Bed.
• (dated) A kind of loose-fitting gown or dress with sleeves which hangs from the shoulders, such as a gown with a Watteau back or sack-back, fashionable in the late 17th to 18th century; or, formerly, a loose-fitting hip-length jacket, cloak or cape.
• (dated) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
• (vulgar, slang) The scrotum.
• (Midland US) Any disposable bag.
• [Verb]
• To put in a sack or sacks.
• To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
• To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
• (American football) To tackle the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage, especially before he is able to throw a pass.
• (informal, transitive) To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
• (Australia, slang, transitive) To give up on, to abandon, delay, to not think about someone or something.

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