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Grammar : Adj, verb
Spell : sak
Phonetic Transcription : sæk



Definition of sacked out

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 asleep : adj unconscious
  • As in sleep : verb suspend consciousness
  • As in hit the hay : verb go to bed
  • As in oversleep : verb sleep
Example sentences :
  • One fellow cut and weighed out the meat, sacked out the meal in pans what they take to git it in.
  • Extract from : « Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 » by Work Projects Administration

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