sack out


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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How to use sack out in a sentence

  • Not to be a scold, but is it really such a good idea to sack out in front of the TV all Thanksgiving afternoon?

    3 Great Reads for Thanksgiving | Taylor Antrim | November 25, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • And then, you see, the Coroner said, 'Why on earth did he take the sack out in the boat at all?'

    The House by the River | A. P. Herbert
  • He went into the smoking-room, then into the dining-room, dropped the gold plate into a sack and threw the sack out of a window.

  • He spilled the contents of the sack out on the sand, and bent over it.

    The U.P. Trail | Zane Grey
  • Carefully, he emptied the contents of the sack out on the floor.

    Piper in the Woods | Philip K. Dick
  • Then we sack out our own, and they can bring theirs along or not, as they like.

    The Boss of Wind River | David Goodger (goodger@python.org)