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noun
A sturdy sack filled with sand, generally used in large numbers to make defensive walls against flooding, bullets, or shrapnel.
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noun
A small bag filled with sand and used as a cudgel.
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noun
An engraver's leather cushion, etc.
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noun
A deceptive play whereby a player with a strong hand bets weakly or passively.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: card-games, poker
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noun
A bag of illicit drugs.
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Usage: slang
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verb
To construct a barrier of sandbags (around).
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Usage: intransitive, transitive
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verb
To strike (someone) with a sandbag or other object to disable or render unconscious.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To conceal or misrepresent one's true position, potential, or intent in order to gain an advantage; (originally poker) to pretend to have a weak hand, as a strategy.
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Usage: figuratively, intransitive
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Synonyms: downplay
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verb
To blindside; to deceive; to undermine.
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Usage: figuratively, transitive
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verb
To premake dishes (prepare them in advance) (intransitive); to premake (dishes) (transitive).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, transitive
Qualifier: restaurant kitchen jargon
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verb
To pretend to drink alcohol early on so that, as the night draws on, one can drink everybody else "under the table".
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noun
a bag filled with sand; used as a weapon or to build walls or as ballast
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: bag
verb
protect or strengthen with sandbags; stop up
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Broader terms: strengthen
verb
downplay one's ability (towards others) in a game in order to deceive, as in gambling
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Broader terms: misinform, mislead
verb
hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag
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Synonyms: stun
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Broader terms: hit
verb
compel by coercion, threats, or crude means
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Synonyms: dragoon, railroad
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Broader terms: coerce, hale, squeeze, pressure, force
verb
treat harshly or unfairly
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Broader terms: wrong
History
Etymology tree substratebor. Proto-Indo-European *sámdhos? Proto-Germanic *samdaz Proto-West Germanic *samd Old English sand Middle English sond English sand Old Norse baggibor.? Old French baguebor.? Middle English bagge English bag English sandbag From sand + bag.
Across languages
49 source translations are retained for this English entry.
