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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

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