sack out

Idioms  

1. 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.

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Example Sentences

“That was great for him to get some sacks and maybe some of the people who are counting sacks out there will acknowledge those.”

From Washington Times

Which sums up the feeling of riding those ferries, sacking out on deck again, 25 years later.

From Seattle Times

It was my husband, often still awake when I’m already sacked out, who struck on an idea one night.

From Washington Post

Smothers Jr. slept deeply in his firehouse bunk at Engine Company 3 on New Jersey Avenue NW, sacked out in a navy fire department T-shirt and his skivvies.

From Washington Post

When night falls on the train through Macedonia, people without seats sack out on the floor and in baggage compartments, leading to jokes about how they are always sleeping in five-star hotels.

From New York Times

Related Words

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