sac

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/sæk/

noun

A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid.

“I kept saccing monsters at the altar until I was rewarded with a new weapon.”

CommonScrabble 5

Meanings

sac1

nounsac (plural sacs)

plural sacs

  1. A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid.

sac2

verbsac (third-person singular simple present sacs, present participle sacking or saccing, simple past and past participle sacked or sacced)

present singular third person sacs · participle present sacking · participle present saccing · participle past sacked · past sacked · participle past sacced · past sacced

  1. informaltransitivegamesTo sacrifice.

    I kept saccing monsters at the altar until I was rewarded with a new weapon.

    1 more example

    Kasparov sacked his queen early on in the game to gain a positional advantage against Kramnik.

nounsac (plural sacs)

plural sacs

  1. informaltransitivegamesA sacrifice.

    Kasparov's queen sac early in the game gained him a positional advantage against Kramnik.

sac3

noun
  1. UKhistoricallawThe privilege, formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines; now used only in the phrase sac and soc or soc and sac.

    But it is really the court-baron which represents the ancient assembly of the mark, while the court-leet represents the lord's jurisdiction of sac and soc, whether granted before or since the coming of William.

    1876, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England, page 311
    2 more examples

    In later times, if the lord had "sac and soc,” his court had the authority of the Court Leet; if he had the view of frankpledge the suitors at his court were free from attendance at the sheriff's tourn; his court was then in all points like the hundred court, but independent of the sheriff.

    1882, William White, History, gazetteer, and directory, of Lincolnshire, page 21

    The grant of “sac and soc” did not always carry with it the right to hold a court, but frequently amounted only to the privilege of receiving the forfeitures the lord's men should incur in the Hundred court, or possibly to one-third of the revenues of the Hundred and Shire, which had formerly gone to the ealdorman.

    1899 February, F. M. Cobb, “Early English Courts”, in The Western Reserve Law Journal, volume 5, number 1, page 16

SAC4

nounSAC (plural SACs)

plural SACs

  1. abbreviationacronymgovernmentAcronym of senior aircraftman.
  2. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of saeculum ante Christum (“era before Christ”).
proper noun
  1. abbreviationhobbiesAbbreviation of Sacramento.
  2. USabbreviationacronymgovernmentAcronym of Strategic Air Command.
  3. abbreviationacronymdivingAcronym of surface air consumption.

Sac5

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Sauk.
nounSac (plural Sacs or Sac)

plural Sacs

  1. alternativeAlternative form of Sauk.

Sac6

proper noun
  1. informalThe city of Sacramento, California, United States.

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna member of the Algonquian people formerly living in Wisconsin in the Fox River valley and on the shores of Green Bay

Similar

nounan enclosed space

Broader
cavityenclosed space

nouna case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule

Similar
Broader
coveringnatural coveringcover

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

sac · noun

  1. Ancient Greekσᾰ́κκος (sắkkos)
  2. Latinsaccus
  3. Old Frenchsac
  4. Frenchsac
  5. Englishsac

Borrowed from French sac. Doublet of saccus, sack, saco, and sakkos.

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APA

sac. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sac

MLA

“sac.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sac. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sac,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sac.

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