sack lunch

noun

A packed lunch in a sack (especially a paper bag); broadly, synonym of packed lunch.

Meanings

nounsack lunch (plural sack lunches)

plural sack lunches

  1. USA packed lunch in a sack (especially a paper bag); broadly, synonym of packed lunch.

    […] played “black man” and "run sheep run," ate sack lunches, and rushed home after school to bring in the cows […]

    1994, Daniel Fitzgerald, Faded Dreams: More Ghost Towns of Kansas, page 149
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