Usually means: Bag for carrying or storing.
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General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. sack: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sack: Merriam-Webster
  3. sack, sack, sack, sack, the sack: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sack, sack, sack: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sack, the sack: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sack: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sack, sack: Wordnik
  8. sack, the sack: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sack: Wiktionary
  10. sack: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sack: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sack: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Sack, sack: Dictionary.com
  14. sack (n.1), sack (n.2), sack (n.3), sack (v.1): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sack: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. SACK, Sack (band), Sack (comics), Sack (football), Sack (unit), Sack (wine), Sack: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sack: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sack: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sack: Rhymezone
  20. Sack (m), sack: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sack: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Sack (get the sack): Britih-American Dictionary
  23. SACK: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. Sack, Sack: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. sack: FreeDictionary.org
  26. sack: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  27. sack: Mnemonic Dictionary
  28. sack: TheFreeDictionary.com
  29. sack: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sack: Legal dictionary
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sack: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SACK: Acronym Finder
  2. sack: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sack: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. sack, sack: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sack: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Sack: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. Sack, the sack: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
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  3. Sack: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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.
noun:  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).
noun:  (uncountable) The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
noun:  (uncountable) Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
noun:  (American football) A successful tackle of the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage.
noun:  (baseball) One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
noun:  (informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position.
noun:  (colloquial, US, literally or figurative) Bed.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (dated) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
noun:  (vulgar, slang) The scrotum.
noun:  (Midland US) Any disposable bag.
verb:  To put in a sack or sacks.
verb:  To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
verb:  To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
verb:  (American football) To tackle the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage, especially before he is able to throw a pass.
verb:  (informal, transitive) To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
verb:  (Australia, slang, transitive) To give up on, to abandon, delay, to not think about someone or something.
noun:  (dated) A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine from southern Europe; sherry.
noun:  Dated form of sac (“pouch in a plant or animal”). [A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid.]
verb:  Alternative spelling of sac (“sacrifice”) [(transitive, informal, games) To sacrifice.]
noun:  Alternative spelling of sac (“sacrifice”) [A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid.]

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