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sacker¹

Rhymes with -ækə(ɹ)

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From sack + -er.

noun sackers

  1. A person who sacks or plunders. Direptor & vexator vrbis. Cicer[o]. A spoy[l]er and sacker of a citie.
  2. A person who fills or makes sacks or bags. 1929, P. D. Peterson, Through the Black Hills and Bad Lands of South Dakota, Pierre, SD: J. Fred Olander, Chapter 5 “Cement Plant,” p. 41, There are two men, known as sackers who, with the use of machinery, can fill 15,000 to 20,000 sacks a day.
  3. Synonym of bagger (“retail employee who bags customers' purchases”). Know a grocery sacker with a pension like that?

    Similar: bagger

  4. A machine or device for filling sacks. 1950, E. D. Gordon and W. M. Hurst, Artificial Drying of Forage Crops, Washington: DC, United States Department of Agriculture, Circular No. 443, p. 20, The feeder conveys the chopped alfalfa to the drying-drum—from the drum the dried forage is conveyed through one or more cooling cyclones to a hamm
  5. A person who sacks or fires (dismisses someone from a job or position). Romanov was a serial sacker of managers, picked the team himself at times from Vilnius […]
  6. in compounds A baseman (player positioned at or near a base). The ball crossed the base before he did, but it bounded between the third sacker’s feet, and score two was marked up for Hollis Creek, with nobody out!
  7. A player who sacks (tackles the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage before he is able to throw a pass). The loss of last year’s leading sacker, Kerry Hyder Jr., for the season with an Achilles injury is still problematic.

sacker²

Rhymes with -ækə(ɹ)

noun sackers

  1. alternative Alternative form of saker (cannon)

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noun someone who plunders

Españolsaqueador
DeutschPlünderer

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@misc{sacker_2026,
  title = {sacker},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sacker},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}