sandbag

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
美 /ˈsændˌbæɡ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sturdy sack filled with sand, generally used in large numbers to make defensive walls against flooding, bullets, or shrapnel.
    — Santa Cruz residents clear storm debris and stack sandbags near their homes on January 7.
  2. A small bag filled with sand and used as a cudgel.
  3. An engraver's leather cushion, etc.
  4. A deceptive play whereby a player with a strong hand bets weakly or passively.
  5. A bag of illicit drugs. slang
    — Two young bruddas tryna eat off of music / But we used to eat off of pebs and the sandbags
动词 v.
  1. To construct a barrier of sandbags (around). intransitive,transitive
    — We sandbagged the basement windows against the floodwaters.
  2. To strike (someone) with a sandbag or other object to disable or render unconscious. transitive
  3. 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.
  4. 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.”
  5. To premake dishes (prepare them in advance) (intransitive); to premake (dishes) (transitive). intransitive,transitive
  6. To pretend to drink alcohol early on so that, as the night draws on, one can drink everybody else "under the table".

词形变化

sandbags plural sandbags present,singular,third-person sandbagging participle,present sandbagged participle,past sandbagged past

词汇关系

衍生词
sandbagger

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
substratebor.
Proto-Indo-European *sámdʰos?
Proto-Germanic *samdaz
Proto-West Germanic *samd
Old English sand
Middle English sond
English sand
Old Norse baggibor.?
Old French baguebor.?
Middle English bagge
English bag
English sandbag
From sand + bag.
词源 2
Etymology tree
substratebor.
Proto-Indo-European *sámdʰos?
Proto-Germanic *samdaz
Proto-West Germanic *samd
Old English sand
Middle English sond
English sand
Old Norse baggibor.?
Old French baguebor.?
Middle English bagge
English bag
English sandbag
From sand + bag.
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