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sack out

  1. Go to sleep, go to bed, as in We sacked out about midnight. This slangy idiom is a verbal use of the noun sack, slang for “bed” since about 1940; it alludes to a sleeping bag and appears in such similar phrases as in the sack, in bed, and sack time, bedtime.



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Then Williams was sacked out of field goal range and he laid in the grass for a few extra seconds, as if he knew what the loss meant.

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On that potential game-tying drive, Moore took three sacks out of four plays.

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He sells one kind of oyster, a Japanese variety called Crassostrea gigas, which he buys as small spuds from suppliers in France and grows in netted sacks out in the estuary.

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It's because she's nine-days sober and her body is adjusting to sleeping free of depressants, but haven't we all felt like crawling behind a row of cereal boxes to sack out at some point recently?

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Exhausted, we sacked out early that night at Zion Lodge, the rustic and unassuming structure built nearly a century ago.

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