A sack usually refers to a rectangular-shaped bag. Sack may also refer to:

Bags

* Flour sack * Gunny sack * Hacky sack, sport *

Money sack A money bag (or money sack) is a bag normally used to hold and transport coins and banknotes, often closed with a drawstring.Paper sack A paper sack is a packaging type that can be constructed of one or several layers of high quality kraft paper, usually produced from virgin fibre. Paper sacks can also be referred to as industrial paper bags, industrial paper sacks or multi-wall ...

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 ...

* Stuff sack *

Knapsack A backpack—also called knapsack, schoolbag, rucksack, rucksac, pack, sackpack, booksack, bookbag or backsack—is, in its simplest frameless form, a fabric sack carried on one's back and secured with two straps that go over the shoulders ...

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Bed A bed is an item 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) Sack is a five-piece Irish band, based in Dublin. To date the band has released three albums: ''You Are What You Eat'', ''Butterfly Effect'' and ''Adventura Majestica''. The band formed after the demise of Lord John White. Their first single " ...

, an Irish band * Sack (comics), a Marvel Comics villain *

Sack (surname) Sack is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * August Friedrich Wilhelm Sack (1703–1786), German Reformed preacher and theologian * Simon Heinrich Sack (1723–1791), German Privy Councillor to Frederick II of Prussia * Friedrich ...

, a surname *

Sack (unit) The sack (abbreviation: sck.) was an English unit of weight or mass used for coal and wool. It has also been used for other commodities by weight, commodities by volume, and for both weight and volume in the United States. Wool The wool sack or wo ...

, an English unit of weight or mass used for coal and wool *

Sack (wine) Sack is an antiquated wine term referring to white fortified wine imported from mainland Spain or the Canary Islands.

, 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 intern ...

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 more appropriate rendering of th ...

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

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

(SACK), in computer networking *

Ball sack The scrotum or scrotal sac is an anatomical male reproductive structure located at the base of the penis that consists of a suspended dual-chambered sac of skin and smooth muscle. It is present in most terrestrial male mammals. The scrotum cont ...

, slang for scrotum *

Dismissal (employment) Dismissal (also called firing) 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 performance-relate ...

, 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 tackled behind the line of scrimmage before throwing a forward pass, when the quarterback is tackled behind the line of scrimmage in t ...

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

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