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sack out

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  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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"She is trans, rested and ready. She's got a great slogan, 'Take the sack out of Sacramento.'"

From Fox News • Apr. 24, 2021

But at high altitude nobody is allowed to "sack out."

From Time Magazine Archive

He practiced only a couple of hours a week, liked to sack out for a midday nap that lasted until 4, loved to strum his guitar at parties.

From Time Magazine Archive

He set the sack out beside the wheat berries and stared at all the food, so casually kept in the ship.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

He snatched the sack out of Emmett’s hand.

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe

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