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sandbag v.

To treat harshly or unfairly.

To hit something or somebody with or as if with a sandbag.

To protect or strengthen with sandbags; stop up; as, the residents sandbagged the beach front.

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)

To intimidate or coerce, especially by crude methods. (Informal)

To deceive and take advantage of (a person) by misrepresenting one's true intentions. (Informal)

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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Etymology of 'Sandbag'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sandbag" Quotes from Famous Books

... parapet of the Bridge of Despair leant young Lackaday, gazing unseeingly down into the Rhone. His sudden misfortune had been like the stunning blow of a sandbag. His brain still reeled. What had happened was incomprehensible. He knew his business. He could conceive no other. He had been trained to it since infancy. There was not a phase of clown's work with which he was not familiar. He was a passable gymnast, an expert ...

— The Mountebank • William J. Locke

... reason we had decided to watch this one from the firing-line. We had stayed too long at Brigade Headquarters getting the details of the night's plan. Just as we hurried out of the end of the communication trench into the dark jumble of the low sandbag constructions which formed this part of the firing-line, there came two bangs from the southward as if someone had hit an iron ship's tank with a big drumstick. It was our ...

— Letters from France • C. E. W. Bean

... if I do. They give me the willies. Never did like them, and ever since they acted so nasty about that accident I just plumb hate 'em. You'd think dad was trying to sandbag them or something like that. Just listen to them grouching around. I'd hate to be a woman and married to one of them and have ...

— The Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island • Gordon Stuart

... reached the dressing-station at the Cove, and placed him on a table in a room with sandbag walls. Several medical men examined the wound and spoke technically thereon. The stretcher-party asked anxiously after his condition, and sought tidings also of cobbers who had been brought back earlier. Then they set off ...

— The Tale of a Trooper • Clutha N. Mackenzie

... special appropriation for the purchase of a home for the daughter of One-Eyed Smothers? Well, that went through like a motion to adjourn, and old One-Eyed never killed half as many Indians as Briscoe did. About what figure had you and the calciminer agreed upon to sandbag ...

— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry

... see that both the General and the interpreter were getting quite peeved, but Scotty answered smilingly: "I will tell you what I did. The Sergeant in charge gave me a long stick with a nail in the end, and I had this stick in one hand and a sandbag in the other, and my work was to go through the trenches picking up all the paper, cigarette boxes, and tin cans." When this speech was interpreted to the General, the old boy was wild. I think he would gladly have put an end to us right there, but he only shouted ...

— Into the Jaws of Death • Jack O'Brien

... 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 ...

— In Flanders Fields and Other Poems - With an Essay in Character, by Sir Andrew Macphail • John McCrae

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