- [countable] a large bag with no handles, made of strong rough material or strong paper or plastic, used for storing and carrying, for example flour, coal, etc.
- They filled the sacks with potatoes.
- bulging sacks of toys
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- bulging
- heavy
- burlap
- …
- empty
- fill
- carry
- …
- be filled with something
- be full of something
- lunch
- race
- in a/the sack
- sack of
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- [countable] (North American English) a strong paper bag for carrying shoppingOxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
- bulging
- heavy
- burlap
- …
- empty
- fill
- carry
- …
- be filled with something
- be full of something
- lunch
- race
- in a/the sack
- sack of
- [countable] the contents of a sack
- They got through a sack of potatoes.
- (North American English) two sacks of groceries
- a sack of coal
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- bulging
- heavy
- burlap
- …
- empty
- fill
- carry
- …
- be filled with something
- be full of something
- lunch
- race
- in a/the sack
- sack of
- the sack[singular] (British English, informal) being told by your employer that you can no longer continue working for a company, etc., usually because of something that you have done wrong
- He got the sack for swearing.
- Her work was so poor that she was given the sack.
- Four hundred workers face the sack.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + the sack- get
- give somebody
- be threatened with
- …
- the sack[singular] (especially North American English, informal) a bed
- He caught them in the sack together.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + the sack- hit
- in the sack
- (usually the sack)[singular] (formal) the act of stealing or destroying property in a captured town
- the sack of Rome
Word Originnoun senses 1 to 5 Old English sacc, from Latin saccus ‘sack, sackcloth’, from Greek sakkos, of Semitic origin. noun sense 6 mid 16th cent.: 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.
Idioms
See sack in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryhit the hay/sack
- (informal) to go to bed
- I decided to hit the sack and have an early night.
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