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sack noun- a bed US, 1942
Probably related to the C19 sailor’s use of “sack” as a “hammock”. - I was pretty well knocked out. I hit the sack early. — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 9, 1947
- I started to tell her that all during the time she thought I was humped up in the sack with some other dame I was out hustling for her[.] — Horace McCoy, Kiss Tomorrow Good-bye, p. 204, 1948
- Got a dread of a cold, lonely sack tonight. — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 65, 1952
- I left the tavern, returned to the dormitory, and put my miserable frame in to the sack. — Max Shulman, Guided Tour of Campus Humor, p. 60, 1955
- Terry and I and Johnny went into a motel room and got ready to hit the sack. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 93, 1957
- We’d meet once or twice a week, always on weekends, at the bar, head for the sack and stay there having sex until we were too tired to move. — Antony James, America’s Homosexual Underground, p. 115, 1965
- She sat on the side of the bed pressing a towel against the wound. I got in the sack in the raw. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 110, 1969
- I gotta hit the sack. — The Blues Brothers, 1980
- One of the things I truly knew was that your father and I were going to have a wonderful time, in the sack I believe you call it. — Sleepless in Seattle, 1993
- I think the romance angle in your story is critically important, that it isn’t simply a jump in the sack for either of them. — Get Shorty, 1995
- a bag of heroin; hence, heroin UK, 1998
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 101, 1996
- — Robert Ashton, This Is Heroin, p. 207, 2002
- the scrotum UK, 1928
Originally dialect. - I brought my knee up into his sack and he let go with a surprised look on his bloody face. — Lenny McLean, The Guv’nor, p. 83, 1998
- She just hoofed you in the sack and you’re going to leave them alone in a jail cell with one inept guard? — Austin Powers, 1999
- courage US
A testicular reference. - — Inez Cardozo-Freeman, The Joint, p. 527–528, 1984
- a coat or jacket US
- — David Claerbaut, Black Jargon in White America, p. 78, 1972
▶ in the sack used for suggesting sexual activity US Literally “in bed”.- That Telly. He sure was good in the sack! — Kids, 1995
- Fuckin ’ell, la, you Italians may be gash [useless] in the sack, but yer fucking quick when it comes to catching on. — Colin Butts, Is Harry on the Boat?, p. 24, 1997
▶ the sack dismissal from employment UK, 1841- Jack’s got the sack after a couple of weeks because he pocketed some of the loot. — John Peter Jones, Feather Pluckers, p. 24, 1964
- I got the hoof, man. The sack, the chop, the proverbial bullet. — Doug Lang, Freaks, p. 89, 1973
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