sack time
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sack time
An Americanism dating back to 1940–45
Example Sentences
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At first the shelter seemed a weary sailor's paradise, and the men caught up on all the sack time lost at boot camp, sleeping in shifts.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I'm taking sack time while I can," he says.
From "Freak The Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick
He would give his family fifteen more minutes of sack time, he thought, before he would wake them up.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
Let's just report to Captain Strong and get some sack time.
From Treachery in Outer Space by Glanzman, Louis
I went back to my own room, and got some sack time myself.
From A Spaceship Named McGuire by Garrett, Randall
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