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sacked out

sacked out adjective: sound asleep, usually from a healthy exhaustion. Also the simple past and past participle of sack out.

Adjective

sacked out (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Sound asleep, usually from a healthy exhaustion.
    • The kids are sacked out in the back seat.

Also used as

sacked out is also the simple past and past participle of sack out.

Origin of sacked out

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

Questions about sacked out

What does sacked out mean?
Sacked out means sound asleep, usually from a healthy exhaustion.
What part of speech is sacked out?
Sacked out is an adjective.

Words near sacked out in the dictionary

  1. sackcloth
  2. sackclothed
  3. sackcloths
  4. sacked
  5. sacked off
  6. sacked out
  7. sacked up
  8. sackee
  9. sackees
  10. sacker
  11. sackers

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