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sack out

sack out verb: to fall asleep, usually from implied exhaustion.

Verb

sack out (third-person singular simple present sacks out, present participle sacking out, simple past and past participle sacked out)

  1. (slang) To fall asleep, usually from implied exhaustion.
    • The kids sacked out in the back seat before we made it home.

sack out meaning in Tamil

sack out in Tamil

சோர்வின் காரணமாக உறங்கிப் போதல்

Synonyms of sack out

Forms of sack out

third-person singular presentsacks out
present participlesacking out
past participlesacked out
pastsacked out

Origin of sack out

Outgrowth of the earlier idiom, to hit the sack, with possible influences from other senses of to sack (“tackle, pillage”, verb), and to sock (“hit, slam”, verb), providing an implication that sleep has been thrust upon a person.

Questions about sack out

What does sack out mean?
Sack out means to fall asleep, usually from implied exhaustion.
What is sack out in Tamil?
Sack out in Tamil is சோர்வின் காரணமாக உறங்கிப் போதல். See Sack out meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sack out?
Sack out is a verb.
What is the past tense of sack out?
The past tense of sack out is sacked out.

Words near sack out in the dictionary

  1. sack o' shit
  2. sack of crap
  3. sack of flesh
  4. sack of shit
  5. sack off
  6. sack out
  7. sack race
  8. sack races
  9. sack silo
  10. sack silos
  11. sack time

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sack out (page history and authors); sack out (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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