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Sandbag

//ˈsændˌbæɡ// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A sturdy sack filled with sand, generally used in large numbers to make defensive walls against flooding, bullets, or shrapnel.
  2. 2
    a bag filled with sand; used as a weapon or to build walls or as ballast wordnet
  3. 3
    A small bag filled with sand and used as a cudgel.
  4. 4
    An engraver's leather cushion, etc.
  5. 5
    A deceptive play whereby a player with a strong hand bets weakly or passively.
Verb
  1. 1
    To construct a barrier of sandbags (around). intransitive, transitive

    "We sandbagged the basement windows against the floodwaters."

  2. 2
    protect or strengthen with sandbags; stop up wordnet
  3. 3
    To strike someone with a sandbag or other object to disable or render unconscious. transitive
  4. 4
    downplay one's ability (towards others) in a game in order to deceive, as in gambling wordnet
  5. 5
    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. figuratively, intransitive

    "Some felt that Roberts was sandbagging, because his mastery of the 250s wasn't really showing in practice or the heat."

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  1. 6
    hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag wordnet
  2. 7
    To blindside; to deceive; to undermine. figuratively, transitive

    "“Sandbagged” was used by George Bush in response to the charges of stiffing. “We feel we were sandbagged,” he said, repeating the slang verb used first by his New Hampshire campaign manager. Concurrently, Joe Scott wrote in his newsletter, “The Political Animal,” that Governor Jerry Brown was “sandbagging Kennedy's surge.”"

  3. 8
    compel by coercion, threats, or crude means wordnet
  4. 9
    To premake dishes (prepare them in advance) (intransitive); to premake (dishes) (transitive). intransitive, transitive
  5. 10
    treat harshly or unfairly wordnet
  6. 11
    To pretend to drink alcohol early on so that, as the night draws on, one can drink everybody else "under the table".

Etymology

Etymology 1

From sand + bag.

Etymology 2

From sand + bag.

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