Dictionary Definition
sacking
Noun
1 coarse fabric used for bags or sacks [syn:
bagging]
2 the termination of someone's employment
(leaving them free to depart) [syn: dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sack]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
Extensive Definition
A sack is a bag, especially a large one for
carrying or storing goods.
It can also refer to:
- Sack (comics), Marvel Comics villain in their Gene Nation
- Sack (band), an Irish band
- A particularly sweet form of mead
- Sack (wine), an old term for white fortified wine such as Sherry
- Looting, as a city after invasion
- Termination of employment, slang in many Commonwealth countries
- Scrotum (slang)
- Bed (furniture) or sleeping bag, as in “hitting the sack” (slang for going to bed)
- Selective acknowledgement (SACK), in computer networking
- Quarterback sack, tackling the quarterback in American and Canadian football
- An obsolete Middle Age measurement of weight in England, equivalent to 26 stone (364 lb)
People with the surname Sack include:
- Brian Sack, an American actor and humorist
- Erna Sack, a German opera singer (soprano)
- John Sack, an American journalist
- Karl Sack, a German jurist and member of the anti-Nazi resistance movement in World War II
- Robert D. Sack, an American judge
See also
- Sad Sack, a comic strip/book character
sacking in German: Sack (Begriffsklärung)
sacking in Italian: Sack
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
assault, attack, banditry, battering, brigandage, brigandism, butchery, depredation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, direption, disorderliness, foraging, foray, forcible seizure, freebooting, killing, laying waste, looting, marauding, massacre, obstreperousness,
onslaught, pillage, pillaging, plunder, plundering, raid, raiding, ransacking, rape, rapine, ravage, ravagement, ravaging, ravishment, razzia, reiving, rifling, riot, rioting, sack, slaughter, sowing with salt,
spoiling, spoliation, unruliness, violation