Sandbag

Quick meaning: Sandbag is a noun meaning A sturdy sack filled with sand, generally used in large numbers to make defensive walls against flooding, bullets, or shrapnel.

Meaning

A sturdy sack filled with sand, generally used in large numbers to make defensive walls against flooding, bullets, or shrapnel.

More Meanings

1. A small bag filled with sand and used as a cudgel.
2. An engraver's leather cushion, etc.
3. (poker) A deceptive play whereby a player with a strong hand bets weakly or passively.
4. (transitive, intransitive) To construct a barrier of sandbags (around).
5. (transitive) To strike (someone) with a sandbag or other object to disable or render unconscious.
6. (figurative, intransitive, originally US) 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.
7. (slang) A bag of illicit drugs.

Example Sentences

We sandbagged the basement windows against the floodwaters.

Two young bruddas tryna eat off of music / But we used to eat off of pebs and the sandbags

The height “49 feet” became a mantra, as volunteers worked for weeks sandbagging and building to match that height.

Some felt that Roberts was sandbagging, because his mastery of the 250s wasn't really showing in practice or the heat.

Word Forms

• sandbags
• sandbagging
• sandbagged

Synonyms for sandbag

Depending on context, synonyms include downplay, stun.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stun, sack, sandbin, supersack, earthbag, minisack.

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