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Sandbag   /sˈændbˌæg/   Listen
noun
sandbag  n.  A bag filled with sand; small sandbags may be used as a weapon, or larger ones to build walls or as ballast; as, they kept the flooding river from the area by buiding a temmporary dike out of sandbags.


verb
sandbag  v.  
1.
To treat harshly or unfairly.
2.
To hit something or somebody with or as if with a sandbag.
3.
To protect or strengthen with sandbags; stop up; as, the residents sandbagged the beach front.
4.
To thwart (another person's plans) by surreptitious maneuvers; as, he sandbagged my proposal by talking in private with other members of the committee. (informal)
5.
To intimidate or coerce, especially by crude methods. (Informal)
6.
To deceive and take advantage of (a person) by misrepresenting one's true intentions. (Informal)
7.
Hence: (Poker) To encourage opponents into betting more by first refraining from betting while having a strong hand, and only later raising the stakes. In informal games, certain types of sandbagging are forbidden.





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"Sandbag" Quotes from Famous Books



... (shelter) 666; camouflage &c (concealment) 530; fortification; munition, muniment^; trench, foxhole; bulwark, fosse^, moat, ditch, entrenchment, intrenchment^; kila^; dike, dyke; parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank, sandbag, revetment; earth work, field- work; fence, wall dead wall, contravallation^; paling &c (inclosure) 232; palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado^, laager^, sangar^; barrier, barricade; boom; portcullis, chevaux de frise [Fr.]; abatis, abattis^, abbatis^; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... 664; balistraria^; bunker, screen &c (shelter) 666; camouflage &c (concealment) 530; fortification; munition, muniment^; trench, foxhole; bulwark, fosse^, moat, ditch, entrenchment, intrenchment^; kila^; dike, dyke; parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank, sandbag, revetment; earth work, field- work; fence, wall dead wall, contravallation^; paling &c (inclosure) 232; palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado^, laager^, sangar^; barrier, barricade; boom; portcullis, chevaux de frise [Fr.]; abatis, abattis^, abbatis^; vallum^, circumvallation^, battlement, rampart, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... horses also, until it got to be a nightmare. I used to shudder every time I saw wagons or troops on that road. My dugout looked out on it. I got a square hole, 8 by 8, dug in the side of the hill (west), roofed over with remnants to keep out the rain, and a little sandbag parapet on the back to prevent pieces of "back-kick shells" from coming in, or prematures from our own or the French guns for that matter. Some straw on the floor completed it. The ground was treacherous and a slip the first night nearly buried——. So we had to be content with walls straight up ...
— In Flanders Fields and Other Poems - With an Essay in Character, by Sir Andrew Macphail • John McCrae
... with his sandbag; and seeing this, Tom leaped back, and was soon making tracks as fast as his ...
— The Rover Boys at School • Arthur M. Winfield
... When he awoke, he found to his horror that he had slept all night among the dead men in the morgue. There was a cemetery at Railway Dugouts, which was carefully laid out. Beyond this there was another line of sandbag homes on one side of a large pond called "Zillebeke Lake." They were used ...
— The Great War As I Saw It • Frederick George Scott


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