sack
noun
[ sak ]
• a large bag made of a strong material such as hessian, thick paper, or plastic, used for storing and carrying goods.
• a woman's short loose unwaisted dress, typically narrowing at the hem, popular especially in the 1950s.
• dismissal from employment.
• "he got the sack for swearing"
Similar:
dismissal,
discharge,
redundancy,
termination of employment,
one's marching orders,
the boot,
the bullet,
the axe,
the (old) heave-ho,
the push,
the bounce,
the elbow,
one's cards,
the chop,
• bed, especially as regarded as a place for sex.
• a base.
• an act of tackling of a quarterback behind the line of scrimmage.
sack
verb
• dismiss from employment.
• "any official found to be involved would be sacked on the spot"
Similar:
dismiss,
give someone their notice,
throw out,
get rid of,
lay off,
let go,
discharge,
cashier,
make redundant,
fire,
kick out,
boot out,
give someone the sack,
give someone the boot,
give someone the bullet,
give someone the push,
show someone the door,
send packing,
give someone their cards,
give someone the elbow,
turf out,
out,
• tackle (a quarterback) behind the line of scrimmage before they can throw a pass.
• "Oregon intercepted five of his passes and sacked him five times"
• put into a sack or sacks.
• "a small part of his wheat had been sacked"
Origin:
Old English sacc, from Latin saccus ‘sack, sackcloth’, from Greek sakkos, of Semitic origin. Sense 1 of the verb dates from the mid 19th century.
sack
verb
• (chiefly in historical contexts) plunder and destroy (a captured town or building).
• "the fort was rebuilt in AD 158 and was sacked again in AD 197"
Similar:
ravage,
lay waste,
devastate,
ransack,
strip,
fleece,
plunder,
pillage,
loot,
rob,
raid,
despoil,
spoil,
reave,
depredate,
spoliate,
forage,
sack
noun
• the pillaging of a town or city.
• "the sack of Rome"
Similar:
laying waste,
ransacking,
plunder,
plundering,
sacking,
looting,
ravaging,
pillage,
pillaging,
devastation,
depredation,
stripping,
robbery,
robbing,
raiding,
despoiling,
rape,
rapine,
ravin,
spoliation,
Origin:
mid 16th century: from French sac, in the phrase mettre à sac ‘put to sack’, on the model of Italian fare il sacco, mettere a sacco, which perhaps originally referred to filling a sack with plunder.
sack
noun
• a dry white wine formerly imported into Britain from Spain and the Canaries.
Origin:
early 16th century: from the phrase wyne seck, from French vin sec ‘dry wine’.
