Lexic.us

Definition of Sack up

1. Verb. Make as a net profit. "The company cleared $1 million"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sack Up

Literary usage of Sack up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Italian and English Dictionary with Pronunciation and Brief Etymologies by August Hjalmar Edgren, Giuseppe Bico, John Lawrence Gerig (1901)
"put in the sack (sack up); lay up in a purse (pocket money) ; put in skins ; eat with avidity; shut up closely; REFL.: lock one's self up in a place, -cato, ..."

2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1879)
"So Jerry lifted the sack up and threw it over his shoulder, and carried it out into the spring-wagon. "Now we are going to travel," said the proud wheat. ..."

3. The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism, Fraudulent and Genuine: Being a by Hereward Carrington (1907)
"... is wearing down his back, it must be remembered), and pulls this sack up above the mouth of the first sack, gathering it together, preparatory to tying. ..."

4. The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism, Fraudulent and Genuine: Being a by Hereward Carrington (1907)
"... is wearing down his back, it must be remembered), and pulls this sack up above the mouth of the first sack, gathering it together, preparatory to tying. ..."

5. The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism: Being a Brief Account of the Most by Hereward Carrington (1920)
"... is wearing down his back, it must be remembered), and pulls this sack up above the mouth of the first sack, gathering it together, preparatory to tying. ..."

6. The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism, Fraudulent and Genuine: Being a by Hereward Carrington (1908)
"... is wearing down his back, it must be remembered), and pulls this sack up above the mouth of the first sack, gathering it together, preparatory to tying. ..."

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