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Definitions for Sacking

[1] stout, coarse woven material of hemp, jute, or the like, chiefly for sacks.
[2] a large bag of strong, coarsely woven material, as for grain, potatoes, or coal.
[3] the amount a sack holds.
[4] a bag: a sack of candy.
[5] Slang . dismissal or discharge, as from a job: to get the sack.
[6] Slang . bed: I bet he's still in the sack.
[7] Also sacque. a loose-fitting dress, as a gown with a Watteau back, especially one fashionable in the late 17th century and much of the 18th century. a loose-fitting coat, jacket, or cape.
[8] Baseball . a base.
[9] South Midland U.S. the udder of a cow.
[10] to put into a sack or sacks.
[11] Football . to tackle (the quarterback) behind the line of scrimmage before the quarterback is able to throw a pass.
[12] Slang . to dismiss or discharge, as from a job.
[13] sack out , Slang . to go to bed; fall asleep.
[14] to pillage or loot after capture; plunder: to sack a city.
[15] the plundering of a captured place; pillage: the sack of Troy.
[16] coarse cloth used for making sacks, woven from flax, hemp, jute, etc
[17] a large bag made of coarse cloth, thick paper, etc, used as a container
[18] Also called: sackful the amount contained in a sack, sometimes used as a unit of measurement
[19] a woman's loose tube-shaped dress Also called: sacque a woman's full loose hip-length jacket, worn in the 18th and mid-20th centuries
[20] short for rucksack
[21] cricket , Australian a run scored off a ball not struck by the batsman: allotted to the team as an extra and not to the individual batsman Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): bye
[22] the sack informal dismissal from employment
[23] a slang word for bed
[24] hit the sack slang to go to bed
[25] rough as sacks NZ uncouth
[26] informal to dismiss from employment
[27] to put into a sack or sacks
[28] the plundering of a place by an army or mob, usually involving destruction, slaughter, etc
[29] American football a tackle on a quarterback which brings him down before he has passed the ball
[30] (tr) to plunder and partially destroy (a place)
[31] American football to tackle and bring down a quarterback before he has passed the ball
[32] archaic or trademark any dry white wine formerly imported into Britain from SW Europe

Words related to Sacking

fire, discharge, dismiss, terminate, expel, loot, strip, drop, cashier, bounce, can, ax, ship, maraud, demolish, fleece, desolate, devastate, desecrate, pillage

Words nearby Sacking

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Origin of Sacking

21540–50; < Middle French phrase mettre à sac to put to pillage; sac, in this sense < Italian sacco looting, loot, shortened form of saccomano < Middle High German sakman pillager (conformed to sacco sack1)

Words that may be confused with Sacking

WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, sackbag, sac, sack, sacque

Other words from Sacking

sack·like , adjective

Word origin for Sacking

C16 wyne seck, from French vin sec dry wine, from Latin siccus dry

Synonyms for Sacking

discharge, dismiss, expel, fire, terminate, ax, bounce, can, cashier, drop, ship, give a pink slip, give marching orders, give the boot, kick out, send packing