Sandbag

Definitions: Sandbag

Sandbag

Noun

1. A bag filled with sand; used as a weapon or to build walls or as ballast.

Verb

1. Treat harshly or unfairly.

2. Hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag.

3. Protect or strengthen with sandbags; stop up; "The residents sandbagged the beach front".

Date "sandbag" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Building & Civil Engineering	A bag filled with sand, silt, or earth used for closing of breaches or to form a temporary check dam. Sometimes filled with concrete and used for the same purpose as riprap. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	In the roof of a coal seam, a deposit of glacial debris formed by scourand fill subsequent to coal formation. See also:debris bag. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Sandbag

Synonym: stun (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Arms	Club, mace, truncheon, staff, bludgeon, cudgel, life preserver, shillelah, sprig; hand staff, quarter staff; bat, cane, stick, knuckle duster; billy, blackjack, sandbag, waddy.
Defense	Safeguard; (safety); balistraria; bunker, screen; (shelter); camouflage; (concealment); 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; (inclosure); palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado, laager, sangar; barrier, barricade; boom; portcullis, chevaux de frise; abatis, abattis, abbatis; vallum, circumvallation, battlement, rampart, scarp; escarp, counter-scarp; glacis, casemate; vallation, vanfos.
Punishment	Strike; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Sandbag

English words defined with "sandbag": stun. (references)

Specialty definitions using "sandbag": sandbag stoppings. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Nunmuljeojeun sandbag (1975)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Sandbag" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.00% of the time. "Sandbag" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	95%	19	80,337
Lexical Verb (base form)	5%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	20	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "sandbag"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		thes me rërë, thes ballasti. (various references)

Bulgarian		укрепявам с пясъчни торби, торба с пясък, насилвам (browbeat, coerce, compel, force, push), зашеметявам с пясъчна торба, принуждавам (coerce, compel, constrain, drive, force, make, necessitate, oblige, overpersuade, pressure, pressurize, reduce). (various references)

Chinese		沙袋. (various references)

Danish		sandsaeks-traening af aandedraettet (sandbag breathing exercises). (various references)

Dutch		zandzak. (various references)

Farsi		کیسه شن , گونی پرازشن , ایجاداستحکامات دفاعی کردن . (various references)

Finnish		hiekkasäkki. (various references)

French		sac de sable (punching sack, sand bag). (various references)

German		Sandsack (punch bag, punchbag, punching sack, sand bag). (various references)

Greek		σάκκοσ άμμου, γεώσακκος. (various references)

Hungarian		homokzsák (ballast, punchbag, punching-bag). (various references)

Italian		sacchetto di sabbia, sacchetti di sabbia. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		� �袋 (gizzard), � �嚢 (gizzard), 土嚢 , 土のう , サンドイッチ構� (samba, sampler, sampling, San Francisco, San Jose, sand bath, sand buggy, sand skiing, sand wedge, sandpaper, sandwich structure, Sanforized, sun visor, sunbeam, sunburn). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		すなぶくろ (gizzard), さのう (gizzard, left brain), どのう, サンドバッグ . (various references)

Korean		모래 부대. (various references)

Manx		poagey geinnee. (various references)

Pig Latin		andbagsay.(various references)

Portuguese		saco de areia. (various references)

Romanian		umple cu saci cu nisip, fãcãlui (pulp), ciomãgi (baste, club, cudgel, drub, fustigate, thrash, whop), burduşi (lay in, pommel, shrink, stuff, tan, warp), bumbãci (beat smb. black and blue, wad), apãra cu saci cu nisip, acoperi cu saci cu nisip. (various references)

Russian		мешок с песком. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vreća s peskom. (various references)

Spanish		saco terrero. (various references)

Swedish		sandsäck (punching bag). (various references)

Thai		ถุงทราย. (various references)

Turkish		siper torbası, kum torbası ile vurmak, kum torbası (punching bag), kum torbaları ile çevirmek. (various references)

Ukranian		оглушати ударом мішка з піском, мішок з піском, захистити мішками з піском, баластний мішок. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sandbag": sandbagged, sandbagger, sandbaggers, sandbagging, sandbags. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Sandbag" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eadbang, Saadabad, sandag, Sandaig. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "sandbag" (pronounced sa"ndba'g)
6	-a" n d b a' g	handbag.
3	-b a' g	airbag, mailbag, saddlebag.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-g-n-s"
	-2 letters: angas, bands, bangs, dangs, nadas, sanga.
	-3 letters: abas, agas, anas, ands, anga, ansa, baas, bads, bags, band, bang, bans, dabs, dags, dang, gabs, gads, nabs, nada, nags, saga, sand, sang, snag.
	-4 letters: aas, aba, abs, ads, aga, ana, and, baa, bad, bag, ban, bas, dab, dag, gab, gad, gan, gas, nab, nag, sab, sad, sag.
	-5 letters: aa, ab, ad, ag, an, as, ba, na.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-g-n-s"
	+1 letter: bandages, handbags, sandbags.
	+2 letters: badinages, bandagers, landgrabs, vagabonds.
	+3 letters: bandwagons, gabardines, sandbagged, sandbagger, unbandages.
	+4 letters: ambuscading, brigandages, diagnosable, grandbabies, sandbaggers, sandbagging, scabbarding, vagabondish, vagabondism.
	+5 letters: bastardising, bastardizing, bastinadoing, boardsailing, broadcasting, diagnoseable, sailboarding, sandblasting, starboarding, vagabondages, vagabondisms.
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