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SANDBAG (sandbagged, sandbagging)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sandbag mean?
• SANDBAG (noun)
The noun SANDBAG has 1 sense:
1. a bag filled with sand; used as a weapon or to build walls or as ballast
Familiarity information: SANDBAG used as a noun is very rare.
• SANDBAG (verb)
The verb SANDBAG has 5 senses:
2. compel by coercion, threats, or crude means
3. hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag
4. downplay one's ability (towards others) in a game in order to deceive, as in gambling
5. protect or strengthen with sandbags; stop up
Familiarity information: SANDBAG used as a verb is common.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A bag filled with sand; used as a weapon or to build walls or as ballast
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("sandbag" is a kind of...):
bag (a flexible container with a single opening)
Derivation:
sandbag (protect or strengthen with sandbags; stop up)
sandbag (hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag)
Conjugation: |
Past simple: sandbagged
Past participle: sandbagged
-ing form: sandbagging
Sense 1
Meaning:
Treat harshly or unfairly
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "sandbag" is one way to...):
wrong (treat unjustly; do wrong to)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 2
Meaning:
Compel by coercion, threats, or crude means
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
Context example:
They sandbagged him to make dinner for everyone
Hypernyms (to "sandbag" is one way to...):
coerce; force; hale; pressure; squeeze (to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Sense 3
Meaning:
Hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
sandbag; stun
Hypernyms (to "sandbag" is one way to...):
hit (deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
sandbag (a bag filled with sand; used as a weapon or to build walls or as ballast)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Downplay one's ability (towards others) in a game in order to deceive, as in gambling
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "sandbag" is one way to...):
misinform; mislead (give false or misleading information to)
"Sandbag" entails doing...:
downplay; minimise; minimize; understate (represent as less significant or important)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
sandbagger (someone who deceives you about his true nature or intent in order to take advantage of you)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Protect or strengthen with sandbags; stop up
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
The residents sandbagged the beach front
Hypernyms (to "sandbag" is one way to...):
strengthen (gain strength)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
sandbag (a bag filled with sand; used as a weapon or to build walls or as ballast)
Context examples
His head had been smashed to pulp by heavy blows of a sandbag or some such instrument, which had crushed rather than wounded.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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