1. A bag made of paper or plastic for holding a customer's purchases
   "The cashier packed the groceries into a sack";
   - poke [US, dialect], paper bag, carrier bag [Brit]
    
2. The quantity contained in a sack
   "The farmer brought a sack of potatoes to market";
   - sackful
    
3. An enclosed space
   "the trapped miners found a sack of air";
   - pouch, sac, pocket
    
4. A loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
   "The fashion designer's collection featured modern interpretations of the sack dress";
   - chemise, shift
    
5. A woman's full loose hiplength jacket
   "She wore a fashionable sack over her dress for the afternoon tea";
   - sacque
    
6. A hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily
   "The campers slept in sacks strung between the trees";
   - hammock
    
7. Any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry)
   "He enjoyed a glass of sack with his tapas"
    
8. The plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter
   "the sack of Rome"
    
9. The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
   "The incompetent worker was given the sack";
   - dismissal, dismission [rare], discharge, firing, release, sacking, severance, heave-ho [informal], the axe [informal], the boot [informal], the chop [Brit, informal], chuck [Brit, informal], termination [N. Amer]

1. Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
   "The boss sacked his secretary today"; "The company gave him the sack after repeated violations of policy";
   - displace, fire, give notice, can [N. Amer, informal], dismiss, give the axe [informal], send away, force out, give the sack [informal], terminate
    
2. Put in a sack
   "The grocer sacked the onions"
    
3. Plunder (a town) after capture
   "the barbarians sacked Rome";
   - plunder
    
4. [N. Amer, informal] Make as a net profit
   "The company sacked up a record profit this quarter";
   - net, sack up [N. Amer, informal], clear

Sounds like: sachets, sa, sa

Derived forms: sacks, sacking, sacked

Type of: bag, bed, benefit, case, cavity, conclusion, containerful, dress, encase, enclosed space, ending, frock, gain, incase [rare], jacket, pillage, pillaging, plundering, profit, remove, take, termination, white wine

Encyclopedia: Sack, Robert