sack

I UK [sæk] / US verb [transitive]
Word forms "sack":
present tense I/you/we/they sack he/she/it sacks present participle sacking past tense sacked past participle sacked
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1) British informal to tell someone that they can no longer work at their job

Hundreds of workers are to be sacked at the factory.

The club have sacked their manager.

2) if an army or military group sacks a place, they steal a lot of property from it and destroy it

Imperial troops sacked Rome in 1527.

3) to push down the quarterback in the sport of American football

Phrasal verbs:

- sack out

II UK [sæk] / US noun
Word forms "sack":
singular sack plural sacks
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1) [countable] a large strong bag for storing and carrying things

The sack was too heavy to lift.

a) the things inside a sack

sack of:

a sack of potatoes/flour

b) American a strong paper bag for carrying goods from a shop

a grocery sack

2) the sack

British informal a situation in which the management of a company ends someone's job get the sack:

We didn't want to risk getting the sack by going on strike.

face the sack (= be in a situation in which it is likely that you will lose your job):

Incompetent police officers will now face the sack.

give someone the sack:

He ought to be given the sack.

3) [countable] an occasion when someone pushes down the quarterback in the sport of American football

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get/climb/jump into the sack with someone — informal to have sex with someone that you do not know very well

- in the sack

See:

hit I