sac

Pluralsacs

Formssacs, sacking, sacked

1. 1
   nouncountable

   A part shaped like a bag inside a plant or animal, usually filled with liquid or gas.

   A frog puffs up the sac in its throat to make its loud call.

   The doctor found a small sac of fluid behind her knee.

   Similarpouch

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2. 2
   verbcolloquialtransitive

   In a game, to give something up on purpose, like a chess piece, to gain something better.

   If you sac your knight now, you can trap her queen.

   He kept saccing his weaker monsters to make his best one stronger.

   Similarsacrifice

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3. 3
   nouncolloquialtransitivecountable

   In a game, a move where you give up a piece on purpose to get something better.

   Her bishop sac surprised everyone at the chess club.

   That sac looked crazy, but it won him the game.

   Similarsacrifice

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4. 4
   nounhistoricalUKuncountable

   Long ago, a lord's right to hold courts, judge cases, and fine people. Now used only in "sac and soc."

   The king gave the abbey sac and soc, so its monks ran their own court.

   But it is really the court-baron which represents the ancient assembly of the mark, while the court-leet represents the lord's jurisdiction of sac and soc, whether granted before or since the coming of William.

   1876, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of EnglandHere, sac means a lord's old right to hold courts and fine people.

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