verb
prepare for sleep
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I usually turn in at midnight
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He goes to bed at the crack of dawn
• Syn:
↑go to bed, ↑turn in, ↑bed, ↑crawl in, ↑kip down, ↑hit the hay, ↑hit the sack, ↑go to sleep, ↑retire
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s
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intransitive verb slang : to go to sleep
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ˌsack ˈout [intransitive] [present tense I/you/we/they sack out he/she/it sacks out present participle sacking out past tense sacked out past participle sacked out] mainly american spoken phrasal verb
to go to sleep
Main entry: sack
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sack out [phrasal verb]
US informal : to lie down for sleep
I went upstairs to sack out.
He sacked out on the living room couch.
◇ A person who is sacked out is sleeping.
He was sacked out on the living room couch.
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Main Entry: ↑sack
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ˌsack ˈout derived
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We watched a DVD and sacked out on the couch.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.