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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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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|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.
The Chase of the Golden Plate|Jacques Futrelle
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)

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