sandbag

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A sturdy sack filled with sand, generally used in large numbers to make defensive walls against flooding, bullets, or shrapnel.
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.

Verb

1. (intransitive, transitive) To construct a barrier of sandbags (around).
2. (transitive) To strike someone with a sandbag or other object to disable or render unconscious.
3. (figuratively, intransitive) 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.
4. (figuratively, transitive) To blindside; to deceive; to undermine.
5. (intransitive, transitive) To premake dishes (prepare them in advance) (intransitive); to premake (dishes) (transitive).
6. To pretend to drink alcohol early on so that, as the night draws on, one can drink everybody else "under the table".

Sinónimos

dragoon

stun

railroad

browbeat

bully

clamp

🗜️

coerce

compel

criticize

drive

enforce

force

gabion

hale

impel

intimidate

lambaste

make

maltreat

misrepresent

mistreat

narcotize

press

reduce

stupefy

victimise

victimize

kick around

punching bag

sand bag

ache

punch bag

besot

boss

Traducións

Sandsack

saco de arena

sac de sable

saco de areia

sacchetto di sabbia

φέρομαι

σάκκος άμμου

pilota de cops

voie ferrée

dragon

🐉

sac à terre

sac à sable

punching bag

punching ball

chemin de fer

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

From sand + bag.