How to pronounce “sandbag”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A sturdy sack filled with sand, generally used in large numbers to make defensive walls against flooding, bullets, or shrapnel.
• A small bag filled with sand and used as a cudgel.
• An engraver's leather cushion, etc.
• (poker) A deceptive play whereby a player with a strong hand bets weakly or passively.
• [Verb]
• (transitive, intransitive) To construct a barrier of sandbags (around).
• (transitive) To strike someone with a sandbag or other object to disable or render unconscious.
• (figurative, intransitive, originally US) To conceal or misrepresent one's true position, potential, or intent in order to gain an advantage; (originally poker) to pretend to have a weak hand, as a strategy.
• (figurative, transitive) To blindside; to deceive; to undermine.
• (restaurant kitchen jargon, intransitive, transitive) To premake dishes (prepare them in advance) (intransitive); to premake (dishes) (transitive).
• To pretend to drink alcohol early on so that, as the night draws on, one can drink everybody else "under the table".

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