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Collocations for sack - noun

1. large bag

ADJECTIVE

bulging, heavy
bulging sacks of toys
burlap (AmE), gunny (AmE), hessian (esp. BrE), leather, paper, plastic
flour, mail, potato
refuse (BrE) (garbage bag in AmE)
bivvy (AmE)

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VERB + sack

empty, fill
They filled the sacks with potatoes.
carry, drag, haul, heave, pull
carry sth in, put sth in

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sack + VERB

be filled with sth, be full of sth

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sack + NOUN

lunch (AmE)
race (= a race in which the competitors jump forward inside a sack)

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PREPOSITION

in a/the sack
sack of
a sack of coal
two sacks of groceries (AmE)

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2. (the sack) (BrE) dismissal from your job

VERB + the sack

get (BrE, AmE)
She got the sack after 20 years of service.
give sb
be threatened with, face
Hundreds of postal workers are facing the sack.

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3. (the sack) (informal, esp. AmE) bed

VERB + the sack

hit
I decided to hit the sack (= go to bed) and have an early night.

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PREPOSITION

in the sack
He caught them in the sack together.

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Collocations for sack - verb

Sack is used with these nouns as the object:
agent, assistant, employee, staff, worker

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