sandbag
IPA: sˈændbæg
noun
- A sturdy sack filled with sand, generally used in large numbers to make defensive walls against flooding, bullets, or shrapnel.
- A small bag filled with sand and used as a cudgel.
- An engraver's leather cushion, etc.
- (poker) A deceptive play whereby a player with a strong hand bets weakly or passively.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To construct a barrier of sandbags (around).
- (transitive) To strike someone with a sandbag or other object to disable or render unconscious.
- (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.
- (figurative, transitive) To blindside; to deceive; to undermine.
- To pretend to drink early on so that, as the night draws on, one can drink everybody else "under the table".
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