sacking Definition

sack¹
noun

1. A large bag, especially one made of coarse cloth or paper.

Thesaurus: bag, pouch, container, pocket.
2. The amount a sack will hold; a sackful.
3. colloq
Dismissal from employment.
Example: gave the caretaker the sack
Example: She'll get the sack
Thesaurus: dismissal, notice, discharge, the boot (slang), the axe (slang), pink slip (US slang).
Form: the sack
4. slang
Bed.
Form: the sack
5. Amer football.
The instance of intervening or tackling the quarterback while still in possession of the ball.
Form: the sack

verb sacked, sacking

1. To put into a sack or sacks.
2. colloq
To dismiss from employment.
Thesaurus: dismiss, fire, lay off, discharge, cashier, can (US slang).
3. Amer football.
To tackle (the quarterback while still in possession of the ball).

Idiom: hit the sack

slang
To go to bed.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon sacc, from Latin saccus, from Greek sakkos bag.

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sack²
verb

sacked, sacking
1. To plunder, pillage and destroy a town.

Thesaurus: pillage, loot, plunder, lay waste, raze, demolish, ravage, devastate, maraud, desecrate, despoil.

noun

1. The act of sacking a town.

Thesaurus: plunder, ruin, destruction, rapine.

Etymology: 16c: from French mettre à sac to put one's loot into a bag; to plunder.

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sacking
noun

1. Coarse cloth used to make sacks.
2. colloq
Dismissal from, or the act of dismissing from, employment.