sacked out
Meanings
adj
- Sound asleep, usually from a healthy exhaustion.
verb
- simple past and past participle of sack out
Pronunciation
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Etymology
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.
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