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Antonyms for hit the sack
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : sak |
Phonetic Transcription : sæk |
Definition of hit the sack
Origin :- "large bag," Old English sacc (West Saxon), sec (Mercian), sæc (Old Kentish) "large cloth bag," also "sackcloth," from Proto-Germanic *sakkiz (cf. Middle Dutch sak, Old High German sac, Old Norse sekkr, but Gothic sakkus probably is directly from Greek), an early borrowing from Latin saccus (also source of Old French sac, Spanish saco, Italian sacco), from Greek sakkos, from Semitic (cf. Hebrew saq "sack").
- The wide spread of the word is probably due to the Biblical story of Joseph, in which a sack of corn figures (Gen. xliv). Baseball slang sense of "a base" is attested from 1913. Slang meaning "bunk, bed" is from 1825, originally nautical. The verb meaning "go to bed" is recorded from 1946. Sack race attested from 1805.
- As in retire : verb leave a place or responsibility
- As in sleep : verb suspend consciousness
- As in turn in : verb go to bed
- As in hit the hay : verb go to bed
- As in superannuate : verb retire
Synonyms for hit the sack
- absent oneself
- bed
- bed down
- bunk
- catch a wink
- catch forty winks
- catch some z's
- catnap
- conk out
- cop some z's
- crash
- decamp
- deny oneself
- depart
- doze
- draw back
- dream
- drop off
- drowse
- ebb
- exit
- fall asleep
- fall back
- fall out
- flop
- get away
- get off
- give ground
- give up work
- give way
- go
- go away
- go to bed
- go to one's room
- go to sleep
- hand over
- hibernate
- hit the hay
- hit the sack
- kip down
- languish
- leave service
- lie down
- make vacant
- nap
- nod
- nod off
- oversleep
- part
- pension
- pile in
- pull back
- pull out
- put out to pasture
- recede
- regress
- relax
- relinquish
- remove
- repeal
- repose
- rescind
- resign
- rest
- retire
- retreat
- revoke
- roll in
- run along
- rusticate
- sack out
- saw wood
- secede
- seclude oneself
- separate
- sever connections
- slumber
- snooze
- snore
- stop working
- surrender
- take a nap
- take off
- turn in
- withdraw
- yawn
- yield
- zonk out
- zzz
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