Phrase guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
Sound asleep, usually from a healthy exhaustion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, not-comparable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
simple past and past participle of sack out
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Outgrowth of the earlier idiom, to hit the sack (“to lie down to sleep”), with possible influences from other senses of to sack (“to tackle, to pillage”), and to sock (“to hit, to slam”), providing an implication that sleep has been thrust upon a person.
