Sack
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A sack is a bag, especially a large one for carrying or storing goods.
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 (wine), a type of white fortified wine
- Money sack
- Stuff sack
- 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
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)
[edit] People
- Brian Sack, American actor and humorist
- Erna Sack, German opera singer (soprano)
- John Sack, American journalist
- Karl Sack, German jurist and member of the anti-Nazi resistance movement in World War II
- Peter Sack, German shot putter
- Robert D. Sack, American judge
- Robert L. Sack, American physician
- Steve Sack, American editorial cartoonist
[edit] 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
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