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▸ noun: A small bag filled with sand and used as a cudgel.
▸ noun: An engraver's leather cushion, etc.
▸ noun: (poker) A deceptive play whereby a player with a strong hand bets weakly or passively.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive) To construct a barrier of sandbags (around).
▸ verb: (transitive) To strike someone with a sandbag or other object to disable or render unconscious.
▸ verb: (figurative, intransitive, originally US) To conceal or misrepresent one's true position, potential, or intent in order to gain an advantage; (originally poker) to pretend to have a weak hand, as a strategy.
▸ verb: (figurative, transitive) To blindside; to deceive; to undermine.
▸ verb: To pretend to drink early on so that, as the night draws on, one can drink everybody else "under the table".
Similar:
stun,
sacking,
gunny sack,
sandbin,
supersack,
earthbag,
minisack,
chaffbag,
sand battery,
sandheap,
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