Definition of sack

"sack" in the noun sense

1. sack, poke, paper bag, carrier bag

a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases

2. pouch, sac, sack, pocket

an enclosed space

"the trapped miners found a pocket of air"

3. sack, sackful

the quantity contained in a sack

4. sack

any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry)

5. sack, sacque

a woman's full loose hiplength jacket

6. hammock, sack

a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees swings easily

7. chemise, sack, shift

a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist

8. sack

the plundering of a place by an army or mob usually involves destruction and slaughter

"the sack of Rome"

9. dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking

the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

"sack" in the verb sense

1. sack, plunder

plunder (a town) after capture

"the barbarians sacked Rome"

2. displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate

terminate the employment of discharge from an office or position

"The boss fired his secretary today"

"The company terminated 25% of its workers"

3. net, sack, sack up, clear

make as a net profit

"The company cleared $1 million"

4. sack

put in a sack

"The grocer sacked the onions"

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Quotations for sack

Good words fill not a sack. [ Proverb ]

You cannot hide an eel in a sack. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

An empty sack cannot stand upright. [ Proverb ]

Every one thinks his sack heaviest. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Every sow deserves not a sack-posset. [ Proverb ]

Honour and profit lie not in one sack. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

You may know by a handful the whole sack. [ Proverb ]

It is a bad sack that will bear no clouting. [ Proverb ]

It is good tying the sack before it be full. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

I hope I may tie up my own sack when I please. [ Proverb ]

Nothing can come out of a sack that is not in it. [ Italian Proverb ]

One grain fills not a sack, but helps his fellows. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Honor and profit do not always lie in the same sack. [ George Herbert ]

Like a collier's sack, bad without, but worse within. [ Proverb ]

He sins as much who holds the sack as he who puts into it. [ French Proverb ]

There comes naught ought out of the sack but what was there. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

One gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves. [ Auerbach ]

Make yourself an ass, and you'll have every man's sack on your shoulders. [ Danish Proverb ]

If you want a good crop, sow with your hand, and pour not out of the sack. [ Proverb ]

Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm. [ Swift ]

sack in Scrabble®

The word sack is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters sack:

CASK
(45)
SACK
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word sack

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sack in Words With Friends™

The word sack is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters sack:

SACK
(63)
CASK
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The 91 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In sack

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Words within the letters of sack

2 letter words in sack (1 word)

3 letter words in sack (2 words)

4 letter words in sack (Anagrams) (2 words)

Word Growth involving sack

Shorter words in sack

sac

Longer words containing sack

coalsack coalsacks

coxsackievirus coxsackieviruses

disacknowledge disacknowledged

disacknowledge disacknowledgement disacknowledgements

disacknowledge disacknowledges

disacknowledging

gunnysack gunnysacks

haversack haversacks

hopsack hopsacking

hopsack hopsacks

knapsack knapsacked

knapsack knapsacking

knapsack knapsacks

mailsack mailsacks

packsack packsacks

ransack ransacked

ransack ransacker ransackers

ransack ransacking

ransack ransacks

rucksack rucksacks

sackbut sackbuts

sackcloth sackcloths

sacked knapsacked

sacked ransacked

sacker ransacker ransackers

sacker sackers ransackers

sackfish sackfishes

sackful sackfuls

sacking bedsacking

sacking hopsacking

sacking knapsacking

sacking ransacking

sacking sackings

sackless

sacklike

sackload sackloads

sackmaker sackmakers

sackmaking

sacks coalsacks

sacks gunnysacks

sacks haversacks

sacks hopsacks

sacks knapsacks

sacks mailsacks

sacks packsacks

sacks ransacks

sacks rucksacks

sacks sacksful