A sack usually refers to a rectangular-shaped

bag A bag, also known regionally as a sack, is a common tool in the form of a floppy container, typically made of cloth, leather, bamboo, paper, or plastic. The use of bags predates recorded history, with the earliest bags being lengths of animal s ...

. Sack may also refer to:

Bags

Flour sack Bags or sacks for flour range in size and flour sack fabric, material, from large bulk bags, in cotton or woven polypropylene, to smaller consumer packaging, often made of paper. Package types Bulk packaging Flour is often shipped from the m ...

Gunny sack A gunny sack, also known as a gunny shoe, burlap sack, hessian sack or tow sack, is a large Bag, sack, traditionally made of burlap (Hessian fabric) formed from jute, hemp, sisal, or other natural fibres, usually in the crude Spinning (textile ...

* Hacky sack, sport * Money sack *

Paper sack A paper bag is a bag made of paper, usually kraft paper. Paper bags can be made either with virgin or recycled fibres to meet customers' demands. Paper bags are commonly used as shopping carrier bags and for packaging of some consumer goods ...

Sleeping bag A sleeping bag is an insulated covering for a person, essentially a lightweight quilt that can be closed with a zipper or similar means to form a tube, which functions as lightweight, portable bedding in situations where a person is sleeping o ...

Stuff sack Stuff, stuffed, and stuffing may refer to: *Physical matter *General, unspecific things, or entities Arts, media, and entertainment Books *''Stuff'' (1997), a novel by Joseph Connolly *''Stuff'' (2005), a book by Jeremy Strong Fictional ch ...

* Knapsack

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Bed A bed is a piece of furniture that is used as a place to sleep, rest, and relax. Most modern beds consist of a soft, cushioned mattress on a bed frame. The mattress rests either on a solid base, often wood slats, or a sprung base. Many beds ...

, a slang term * Sack (band), an Irish band * Sack (comics), a Marvel Comics villain * Sack (surname), a surname * Sack (unit), an English unit of weight or mass used for coal and wool * Sack (wine), a type of white fortified wine * Sack, Zurich, a village in the Swiss canton of Zurich *

Sacks (surname) Sacks is a German surname meaning "man from Saxony" and may refer to: * Alan Sacks, US television producer * Andrew Sacks, US attorney * C. Jared Sacks, US founder of Channel Classics Records * David O. Sacks (b. 1972), South Africa-born US inte ...

* "Sacked" (''The Detectives''), a 1996 television episode *

Sackcloth Sackcloth ( ''śaq'') is a coarsely woven fabric, usually made of goat's hair. The term in English often connotes the biblical usage, where the '' Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible'' remarks that haircloth would be a more appropriate rendering of ...

(Hebrew ''sak''), a fabric mentioned in the Bible *

Selective acknowledgement The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the main communications protocol, protocols of the Internet protocol suite. It originated in the initial network implementation in which it complemented the Internet Protocol (IP). Therefore, th ...

(SACK), in computer networking *

Ball sack In most terrestrial mammals, the scrotum (: scrotums or scrota; possibly from Latin ''scortum'', meaning "hide" or "skin") or scrotal sac is a part of the external male Sex organ, genitalia located at the base of the penis. It consists of a sa ...

, slang for scrotum *

Dismissal (employment) Dismissal (colloquially called firing or sacking) is the termination of employment by an employer against the will of the employee. Though such a decision can be made by an employer for a variety of reasons, ranging from an economic downturn to ...

, slang term for being fired *

Looting Looting is the act of stealing, or the taking of goods by force, typically in the midst of a military, political, or other social crisis, such as war, natural disasters (where law and civil enforcement are temporarily ineffective), or rioting. ...

, the indiscriminate taking of goods by force, particularly during war *

Quarterback sack In gridiron football, a sack occurs when the quarterback (or another offensive player acting as a passer) is tackle (football move), tackled behind the line of scrimmage before throwing a forward pass, when the quarterback is tackled behind the l ...

, tackling the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage in American and Canadian football * Sack ''jacket'', another term for a

lounge jacket A suit jacket, also called a lounge jacket, dress jacket, lounge coat or suit coat, is a jacket in classic menswear that is part of a suit. History The jacket was originally a work jacket that came into fashion due to the French Revolution. It ...

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