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Definition of Sandbag
1. Verb. Treat harshly or unfairly.
2. Noun. A bag filled with sand; used as a weapon or to build walls or as ballast.
3. Verb. Compel by coercion, threats, or crude means. "They sandbagged him to make dinner for everyone"
4. Verb. Hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag. "The fighter managed to sandbag his opponent"
5. Verb. Downplay one's ability (towards others) in a game in order to deceive, as in gambling.
Entails: Downplay, Minimise, Minimize, Understate
Derivative terms: Sandbagger
6. Verb. Protect or strengthen with sandbags; stop up. ; "The residents sandbagged the beach front"
Definition of Sandbag
1. Noun. a bag, filled with sand, that can be used to weigh something down, to make a defensive wall against flooding etc, or as a weapon ¹
2. Verb. To construct a wall of sandbags (around something). ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To strike someone with a sandbag or other object to disable or render unconscious. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To deceive someone by pretending to be weak, or (in cards) to have a weak hand. ¹
5. Verb. To pretend to drink early on so that as the night draws on one can drink everyone "under the table". ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sandbag
1. to surround with bags of sand [v -BAGGED, -BAGGING, -BAGS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sandbag
Literary usage of Sandbag
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1877)
"After all, there was only a portion of the English thus newly arrayed who knew
anything of the evil which had attended the occupation of the sandbag Battery ..."
2. Letters from Head-quarters: Or, The Realities of the War in the Crimea by Somerset John Gough Calthorpe (1856)
"Advance of the enemy on 2nd Division camp — Lord Raglan — Cossack Hill — sandbag
Battery captured by Russians—•Four guns taken by the enemy — Retaken—• ..."
3. Battlefields of the World War, Western and Southern Fronts: A Study in by Douglas Wilson Johnson (1921)
"17—sandbag shelters and defenses commanding the flooded valley of the Yser.
Note the wooden footpath over the muddy surface and the fact that the ..."
4. Letters from Headquarters: Or, The Realities of the War in the Crimea, by an by Somerset John Gough Calthorpe (1858)
"-—Advance of the enemy on 2nd Division camp—Lord Raglan—Cossack Hill— sandbag
Battery captured by Russians—Four guns taken ..."
5. The Void of War: Letters from Three Fronts by Reginald John Farrer (1918)
"THE sandbag REDOUBT Wandering about on the down-top of Vimy Ridge is difficult
and grisly. It is the wildest waste of chalk, tossed about madly, ..."
6. Cassell's History of the Boer War, 1899-1902 by Richard Danes (1903)
"I could not move almost naked, over the ground, and so A NAVAL GUN AND sandbag
EMPLACEMENT AT LADYSMITH. a gun at night,'' said Sir George White, ..."
7. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1877)
"After all, there was only a portion of the English thus newly arrayed who knew
anything of the evil which had attended the occupation of the sandbag Battery ..."
8. Letters from Head-quarters: Or, The Realities of the War in the Crimea by Somerset John Gough Calthorpe (1856)
"Advance of the enemy on 2nd Division camp — Lord Raglan — Cossack Hill — sandbag
Battery captured by Russians—•Four guns taken by the enemy — Retaken—• ..."
9. Battlefields of the World War, Western and Southern Fronts: A Study in by Douglas Wilson Johnson (1921)
"17—sandbag shelters and defenses commanding the flooded valley of the Yser.
Note the wooden footpath over the muddy surface and the fact that the ..."
10. Letters from Headquarters: Or, The Realities of the War in the Crimea, by an by Somerset John Gough Calthorpe (1858)
"-—Advance of the enemy on 2nd Division camp—Lord Raglan—Cossack Hill— sandbag
Battery captured by Russians—Four guns taken ..."
11. The Void of War: Letters from Three Fronts by Reginald John Farrer (1918)
"THE sandbag REDOUBT Wandering about on the down-top of Vimy Ridge is difficult
and grisly. It is the wildest waste of chalk, tossed about madly, ..."
12. Cassell's History of the Boer War, 1899-1902 by Richard Danes (1903)
"I could not move almost naked, over the ground, and so A NAVAL GUN AND sandbag
EMPLACEMENT AT LADYSMITH. a gun at night,'' said Sir George White, ..."
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