• Finnish: lyödä munille

• Finnish: ryöstö

• Finnish: saalis, ryöstösaalis

Verb

1. To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war.

   The barbarians sacked Rome.

Synonyms

• pillage, plunder, loot, ransack

Translations

Etymology 3

From earlier (wyne) seck < etyl frm (vin) sec < etyl la siccus

Noun

1. A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine from southern Europe; sherry.

   Will't please your lordship drink a cup of sack? ...I ne'er drank sack in my life...

   Thou art so fat-witted, with drinking of old sack...let a cup of sack be my poison...Wherein is he good, but to taste sack and drink it?

A sack is a bag, especially a large one for carrying or storing goods.

It can also refer to:

• Sack (comics), Marvel Comics villain in their Gene Nation
• Sack (band), an Irish band
• A particularly sweet form of mead
• Sack (wine), an old term for white fortified wine such as Sherry
• Looting, as a city after invasion
• Termination of employment, slang in many Commonwealth countries
• Scrotum (slang)
• Bed (furniture) or sleeping bag, as in “hitting the sack” (slang for going to bed)
• Selective acknowledgement (SACK), in computer networking
• Quarterback sack, tackling the quarterback in American and Canadian football
• An obsolete Middle Age measurement of weight in England, equivalent to 26 stone (364 lb)

People with the surname Sack include:

• Brian Sack, an American actor and humorist
• Erna Sack, a German opera singer (soprano)
• John Sack, an American journalist
• Karl Sack, a German jurist and member of the anti-Nazi resistance movement in World War II
• Robert D. Sack, an American judge

See also

• Sad Sack, a comic strip/book character

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