Sack

A sack is a bag, especially a large one for carrying or storing goods. Variants include:

• Money sack
• Stuff sack
• Gunny sack

Sack may also refer to:

• Quarterback sack, a tackle of the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage in American and Canadian football
• Sack (band), an Irish band
• Sack (comics), a Marvel Comics villain
• Sack (surname), a surname
• Sack (wine), a type of white fortified wine
• Sack, Zurich, a village in the Swiss canton of Zurich
• A particularly sweet form of mead (wine)
• Slang for scrotum
• Bed or sleeping bag, as in the phrase 'hitting the sack' (going to bed)
• Selective acknowledgement (SACK), in computer networking
• An obsolete Middle Age measurement of weight in England equivalent to 26 stone (364 lb); more recently it was used as a unit of dry measure, equivalent to three bushels
• Sackcloth (Hebrew sak), a garment of mourning or humility mentioned frequently in the Bible.

Sack, as a verb, may refer to:

• To dismiss/fire/terminate an employee from a job
• To loot, usually in the context of war
  • All pages beginning with "sack of", various places throughout history have been sacked
  • Sack of Rome (disambiguation)

See also

• All pages beginning with "sack"
• All pages with titles containing "sack"
• Sacking out, horse-training method
• Sad Sack, American fictional comic strip and comic book character created by Sgt. George Baker during World War II
• Sacks (disambiguation)
• Sock (disambiguation)
• Sach, Vietnamese ethnic group
• Šach, chess