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Sack

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ409034
Source-derived summary

A sack usually refers to a rectangular-shaped bag.

Sack or sacking may also refer to:

Bags

Flour sack

Gunny sack

Hacky sack, sport

Money sack

Paper sack

Sleeping bag

Stuff sack

Knapsack

Other uses

Bed, a slang term

Sack (band), an Irish band

Sack (comics), a Marvel Comics villain

Sack (surname), a surname

Sack (unit), an English unit of weight or mass used for coal and wool

Sack (wine), a type of white fortified wine

Sack, Zurich, a village in the Swiss canton of Zurich

Sacks (surname)

"Sacked" (The Detectives), a 1996 television episode

Sackcloth (Hebrew sak), a fabric mentioned in the Bible

Selective acknowledgement (SACK), in computer networking

Ball sack, slang for scrotum

Dismissal (employment), slang term for being fired

Looting, the indiscriminate taking of goods by force, particularly during war

Quarterback sack, tackling the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage in American and Canadian football

Sack jacket, another term for a lounge jacket

See also

Sack of Rome (disambiguation)

Sacking out, horse-training method

Sad Sack, American fictional comic strip and comic book character created by Sgt.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Sack” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Sack, Wikimedia and disambiguation, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Sack, Wikimedia and disambiguation is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q409034. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from Sack” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.