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Bag vs. Sack

Bag and Sack Definitions

Bag

A container of flexible material, such as paper, plastic, or leather, that is used for carrying or storing items.

Sack

A bag, especially one made of strong material for holding grain or objects in bulk.

Bag

A handbag; a purse.

Sack

The amount that a sack can hold
Sold two sacks of rice.

Bag

A piece of hand luggage, such as a suitcase or satchel.

Sack

Also sacque A short loose-fitting garment for women and children.
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Bag

A pouchlike or sagging organ or part of the body, such as a cow's udder.

Sack

(Slang) Dismissal from employment
Finally got the sack after a year of ineptitude.

Bag

An object that resembles a pouch.

Sack

(Informal) A bed, mattress, or sleeping bag
Hit the sack at 10:00.

Bag

(Nautical) The sagging or bulging part of a sail.

Sack

(Baseball) A base.
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Bag

The amount that a bag can hold.

Sack

(Football) A successful attempt at sacking the quarterback.

Bag

An amount of game taken or legally permitted to be taken.

Sack

The looting or pillaging of a captured city or town.

Bag

(Baseball) A base.

Sack

Any of various light, dry, strong wines from Spain and the Canary Islands, imported to England in the 1500s and 1600s.
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Bag

(Slang) An area of interest or skill
Cooking is not my bag.

Sack

To place into a sack
Sacked the groceries.

Bag

(Slang) A woman considered ugly or unkempt.

Sack

(Slang) To discharge from employment
Sacked the workers who were caught embezzling.

Bag

To put into a bag
Bag groceries.

Sack

(Football) To tackle (a quarterback attempting to pass the ball) behind the line of scrimmage.

Bag

To cause to bulge like a pouch.

Sack

To rob (a town, for example) of goods or valuables, especially after capture.

Bag

To capture or kill as game
Bagged six grouse.

Sack

A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel.

Bag

To gain; acquire
He bagged a profit from the sale.

Sack

The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity type and according to local usage; an old English measure of weight, usually of wool, equal to 13 stone (182 pounds), or in other sources, 26 stone (364 pounds).

Bag

To capture or arrest
Was bagged for trespassing.

Sack

(uncountable) The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
The sack of Rome

Bag

To accomplish or achieve
Bagged a birdie with a long putt.

Sack

(uncountable) Loot or booty obtained by pillage.

Bag

To fail to attend purposely; skip
Bagged classes for the day and went to the beach.

Sack

(American football) A successful tackle of the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage. See verb sense4 below.

Bag

To stop doing or considering; abandon
Bagged the idea and started from scratch.

Sack

(baseball) One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
He twisted his ankle sliding into the sack at second.

Bag

To terminate the employment of.

Sack

(informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position, usually as give (someone) the sack or get the sack. See verb sense5 below.
The boss is gonna give her the sack today.
He got the sack for being late all the time.

Bag

To pack items in a bag.

Sack

Bed (either literally or figuratively); usually as hit the sack or in the sack. See also sack out.

Bag

To hang loosely
The pants bag at the knees.

Sack

(dated) (also sacque) A kind of loose-fitting gown or dress with sleeves which hangs from the shoulders, such as a gown with a Watteau back or sack-back, fashionable in the late 17th to 18th century; or, formerly, a loose-fitting hip-length jacket, cloak or cape.

Bag

To swell out; bulge.

Sack

(dated) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.

Bag

A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.

Sack

The scrotum.
He got passed the ball, but it hit him in the sack.

Bag

A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, and handbags.

Sack

(dated) A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine from southern Europe; sherry.

Bag

(colloquial) One's preference.
Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music.

Sack

Alternative spelling of sac

Bag

(derogatory) An ugly woman.

Sack

To put in a sack or sacks.
Help me sack the groceries.

Bag

A fellow gay man.

Sack

To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.

Bag

(baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.

Sack

To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
The barbarians sacked Rome in 410 CE.

Bag

(baseball) First, second, or third base.
He headed back to the bag.

Sack

(American football) To tackle the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage, especially before he is able to throw a pass.

Bag

(preceded by "the") A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.

Sack

To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
He was sacked last September.

Bag

(mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
A bag of three apples could be represented symbolically as {a,a,a}. Or, letting 'r' denote 'red apple' and 'g' denote 'green apple', then a bag of three red apples and two green apples could be denoted as {r,r,r,g,g}.

Sack

A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.

Bag

A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
The bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents
The bag of a cow

Sack

A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch.

Bag

A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.

Sack

A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels.

Bag

The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.

Sack

Originally, a loosely hanging garment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing sack.

Bag

A scrotum.

Sack

A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.

Bag

(UK) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.

Sack

See 2d Sac, 2.

Bag

A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.

Sack

Bed.

Bag

(slang) A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.

Sack

The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage.
The town was stormed, and delivered up to sack, - by which phrase is to be understood the perpetration of all those outrages which the ruthless code of war allowed, in that age, on the persons and property of the defenseless inhabitants, without regard to sex or age.

Bag

£1000, a grand.

Sack

To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn.
Bolsters sacked in cloth, blue and crimson.

Bag

(informal) A large number or amount.

Sack

To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.

Bag

(transitive) To put into a bag.

Sack

To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.
The Romans lay under the apprehensions of seeing their city sacked by a barbarous enemy.

Bag

(transitive) To take with oneself, to assume into one's score

Sack

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

Bag

(informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
We bagged three deer yesterday.

Sack

An enclosed space;
The trapped miners found a pocket of air

Bag

To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.

Sack

The quantity contained in a sack

Bag

(slang) To steal.

Sack

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

Bag

To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.

Sack

A woman's full loose hiplength jacket

Bag

(slang) To arrest.

Sack

A hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swing easily

Bag

(transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.

Sack

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

Bag

To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.

Sack

The plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter;
The sack of Rome

Bag

To fit with a bag to collect urine.

Sack

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

Bag

To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag

Sack

Plunder (a town) after capture;
The barbarians sacked Rome

Bag

To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.
The skin bags from containing morbid matter.
The brisk wind bagged the sails.

Sack

Terminate the employment of;
The boss fired his secretary today
The company terminated 25% of its workers

Bag

To hang like an empty bag.
His trousers bag at the knees.

Sack

Make as a net profit;
The company cleared $1 million

Bag

To drop away from the correct course.

Sack

Put in a sack;
The grocer sacked the onions

Bag

To become pregnant.

Bag

To forget, ignore, or get rid of.

Bag

To show particular puffy emotion

Bag

To swell with arrogance.

Bag

To laugh uncontrollably.

Bag

To criticise sarcastically.

Bag

A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.

Bag

A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow.

Bag

A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.

Bag

The quantity of game bagged.

Bag

A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee.

Bag

To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.

Bag

To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game.

Bag

To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.
A bee bagged with his honeyed venom.

Bag

To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.

Bag

To swell with arrogance.

Bag

To become pregnant.

Bag

A flexible container with a single opening;
He stuffed his laundry into a large bag

Bag

The quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person);
His bag included two deer

Bag

Place that runner must touch before scoring;
He scrambled to get back to the bag

Bag

A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women);
She reached into her bag and found a comb

Bag

The quantity that a bag will hold;
He ate a large bag of popcorn

Bag

A portable rectangular traveling bag for carrying clothes;
He carried his small bag onto the plane with him

Bag

An ugly or ill-tempered woman;
He was romancing the old bag for her money

Bag

Mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)

Bag

An activity that you like or at which you are superior;
Chemistry is not my cup of tea
His bag now is learning to play golf
Marriage was scarcely his dish

Bag

Capture or kill, as in hunting;
Bag a few pheasants

Bag

Hang loosely, like an empty bag

Bag

Bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge

Bag

Take unlawfully

Bag

Put into a bag;
The supermarket clerk bagged the groceries

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