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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Examples of "sandbag" in Sentences
- But I didn't try and sandbag it.
- He punched the sandbag in his room.
- Sandbag would be the main offender.
- And we must try not to sandbag one side.
- A sandbag helps a sniper achieve the best accuracy.
- The frantic sandbagging saved the city's water plant.
- There are sandbag buttressed guardposts at the gates.
- Brown succeeded and proved it by firing into a sandbag.
- The weight of heavy pieces was counterbalanced by sandbags.
- Instead of sandbagging and frustrating and lots of pomp and excuses.
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