Usually means: Deliberately underperform to gain advantage.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word sandbag:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. sandbag: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sandbag: Merriam-Webster
  3. sandbag: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sandbag: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sandbag: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sandbag: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sandbag, sandbag: Wordnik
  8. sandbag: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sandbag: Wiktionary
  10. sandbag: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sandbag: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sandbag: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sandbag: Dictionary.com
  14. sandbag (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sandbag: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Sandbag (disambiguation), Sandbag (non-profit organisation), Sandbag: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. sandbag: Rhymezone
  18. sandbag: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. sandbag: FreeDictionary.org
  20. sandbag: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Sandbag: The Word Detective
  22. sandbag: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Sandbag: Investopedia
  4. sandbag: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sandbag: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sandbag: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sandbag, sandbag: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sandbag, sandbag: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sandbag: Dan's Poker
  2. Sandbag: Backgammon
  3. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

(Note: See sandbagged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A sturdy sack filled with sand, generally used in large numbers to make defensive walls against flooding, bullets, or shrapnel.
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".

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