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Meaning of SACK

Pronunciation:  sak

WordNet Dictionary
  1. [n]  the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
  2. [n]  a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
  3. [n]  a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swing easily
  4. [n]  a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases
  5. [n]  a woman's full loose hiplength jacket
  6. [n]  any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry)
  7. [n]  the quantity contained in a sack
  8. [n]  an enclosed space
  10. [v]  put in a sack; "The grocer sacked the onions"
  11. [v]  make as a net profit; "The company cleared $1 million"
  12. [v]  plunder after capture, as of a town

SACK is a 4 letter word that starts with S.


 Synonyms: can, carrier bag, chemise, clear, discharge, dismiss, dismissal, dismission, fire, firing, force out, give notice, give the axe, hammock, liberation, net, paper bag, plunder, pocket, poke, pouch, release, sac, sack up, sackful, sacking, sacque, send away, shift, terminate
 Antonyms: employ, engage, hire
 See Also: bag, bed, benefit, case, cavity, clean out, clear, conclusion, conge, containerful, deactivation, destroy, dishonorable discharge, doggie bag, doggy bag, dress, drop, encase, enclosed space, ending, frock, furlough, gain, grocery bag, inactivation, jacket, lay off, net, pension off, profit, removal, remove, retire, ruin, sack, sack up, Section Eight, send packing, shopping bag, squeeze out, superannuation, take, termination, white wine



Webster's 1913 Dictionary
  1. \Sack\ (s[scr]k), n. [OE. seck, F. sec dry (cf. Sp. seco,
    It. secco), from L. siccus dry, harsh; perhaps akin to Gr.
    'ischno`s, Skr. sikata sand, Ir. sesc dry, W. hysp. Cf.
    A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines. ``Sherris
    sack.'' --Shak.
    {Sack posset}, a posset made of sack, and some other
  2. \Sack\, n. [OE. sak, sek, AS. sacc, s[ae]cc, L. saccus, Gr.
    sa`kkos from Heb. sak; cf. F. sac, from the Latin. Cf. {Sac},
    {Satchel}, {Sack} to plunder.]
    1. A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a
       receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as
       cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch.
    2. A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage
       and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215
       pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels. --McElrath.
    3. [Perhaps a different word.] Originally, a loosely hanging
       garment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders,
       sack. [Written also {sacque}.]
    4. A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending
       from top to bottom without a cross seam.
    5. (Biol.) See 2d {Sac}, 2.
    {Sack bearer} (Zo["o]l.). See {Basket worm}, under {Basket}.
    {Sack tree} (Bot.), an East Indian tree ({Antiaris
       saccidora}) which is cut into lengths, and made into sacks
       by turning the bark inside out, and leaving a slice of the
       wood for a bottom.
    {To give the sack to} or {get the sack}, to discharge, or be
       discharged, from employment; to jilt, or be jilted.
  3. \Sack\, v. t.
    1. To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn.
             Bolsters sacked in cloth, blue and crimson. --L.
    2. To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
  4. \Sack\, n. [F. sac plunder, pillage, originally, a pack,
    packet, booty packed up, fr. L. saccus. See {Sack} a bag.]
    plunder of a town; devastation; ravage.
          The town was stormed, and delivered up to sack, -- by
          which phrase is to be understood the perpetration of
          all those outrages which the ruthless code of war
          allowed, in that age, on the persons and property of
          the defenseless inhabitants, without regard to sex or
          age.                                     --Prescott.
  5. \Sack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sacked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
    {Sacking}.] [See {Sack} pillage.]
          The Romans lay under the apprehensions of seeing their
          city sacked by a barbarous enemy.        --Addison.