sack out

Idioms and Phrases

Go to sleep, go to bed, as in We sacked out about midnight . This slangy idiom is a verbal use of the noun sack , slang for “bed” since about 1940; it alludes to a sleeping bag and appears in such similar phrases as in the sack , in bed, and sack time , bedtime.

Example Sentences

Then Williams was sacked out of field goal range and he laid in the grass for a few extra seconds, as if he knew what the loss meant.

From Los Angeles Times

On that potential game-tying drive, Moore took three sacks out of four plays.

From Los Angeles Times

He sells one kind of oyster, a Japanese variety called Crassostrea gigas, which he buys as small spuds from suppliers in France and grows in netted sacks out in the estuary.

From New York Times

It's because she's nine-days sober and her body is adjusting to sleeping free of depressants, but haven't we all felt like crawling behind a row of cereal boxes to sack out at some point recently?

From Salon

Exhausted, we sacked out early that night at Zion Lodge, the rustic and unassuming structure built nearly a century ago.

From Washington Post

Related Words

• bed down
• doze
• fall asleep
• languish
• relax
• snooze