English Dictionary

sack

IPA（発音記号）

/sæk/

名詞

不可算名詞 くだけた表現 アメリカ英語 口語 古風 俗語 卑語

A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel.

日本語の意味

袋 – 一般的な意味での「袋」。 / 大袋 – 丈夫で粗い素材で作られ、じゃがいも、石炭、コーヒーなど様々な商品の貯蔵や取り扱いに用いられる大きな袋。 / スーパー用袋 – 取っ手付きで、スーパーマーケットや食料品店で使用される袋。 / 小袋（サッチェル） – 小物を入れるための小さい袋。

She carried a heavy sack of potatoes up the stairs.

彼女は重いジャガイモの袋を階段で運んだ。

意味（1）

A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel.

意味（2）

The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity type and according to local usage; an old English measure of weight, usually of wool, equal to 13 stone (182 pounds), or in other sources, 26 stone (364 pounds).

The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels. — McElrath.

意味（3）

(uncountable) The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.

the sack of Rome

意味（4）

(uncountable) Loot or booty obtained by pillage.

意味（5）

(American football) A successful tackle of the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage. See verb sense⁴ below.

意味（6）

(baseball) One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.

He twisted his ankle sliding into the sack at second.

意味（7）

(informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position, usually as give (someone) the sack or get the sack. See verb sense⁵ below.

The boss is gonna give her the sack today.

意味（8）

(colloquial, US) Bed (either literally or figuratively); usually as hit the sack or in the sack. See also sack out.

意味（9）

(dated) (also sacque) A kind of loose-fitting gown or dress with sleeves which hangs from the shoulders, such as a gown with a Watteau back or sack-back, fashionable in the late 17th to 18th century; or, formerly, a loose-fitting hip-length jacket, cloak or cape.

Molly, therefore, having dressed herself out in this sack, with a new laced cap, and some other ornaments which Tom had given her, repairs to church with her fan in her hand the very next Sunday.

意味（10）

(dated) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.

意味（11）

(vulgar, slang) The scrotum.

He got passed the ball, but it hit him in the sack.

sacks （ plural ）