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Sandbag   /sˈændbˌæg/   Listen
Sandbag

verb
1.
Treat harshly or unfairly.
2.
Compel by coercion, threats, or crude means.  Synonyms: dragoon, railroad.
3.
Hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag.  Synonym: stun.
4.
Downplay one's ability (towards others) in a game in order to deceive, as in gambling.
5.
Protect or strengthen with sandbags; stop up.



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"Sandbag" Quotes from Famous Books



... must have signed to his sister to decoy Mother Beckett away from me. When I hauled my soul down from the soaring arches as one strikes a flag, there was Puck at my side and there were Mother Beckett and Dierdre disappearing behind sandbag-hillocks, in the direction of ...
— Everyman's Land • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... his missus, stoking the kitchen fire, with mattresses built up before it like a sandbag battery. Seems to me the woman's been spending half the night airing one thing and another. She says the place is like a vault. Not," added Archelaus, magnanimously, ...
— Major Vigoureux • A. T. Quiller-Couch

... your dear little note in a sandbag. You say that you hope the sandbag stops a bullet. Well, to tell the truth, I hope it don't, as I have been patching ...
— Mr. Punch's History of the Great War • Punch

... with machine guns was watching the approach of Gen. Barnardiston's men, who had been stationed to the right of Gen. Yamada. The Germans were unaware that the Japanese had gained the wall, when suddenly a sentry heard Japanese voices. The signal was given and the Germans rushed from their sandbag houses into the shadow of the wall, hoping to reach their comrades, stationed 500 yards back along the casement walls. Some, perhaps, reached their destination, but the majority of the men were shot ...
— Current History, A Monthly Magazine - The European War, March 1915 • New York Times



Words linked to "Sandbag" :   railroad, squeeze, wrong, sandbagger, coerce, hale, force, downplay, bag, hit, stun, mislead, misinform, minimize, strengthen, dragoon, understate, pressure, minimise



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