Usually means: Bags filled with sand, protective.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. sandbags: Merriam-Webster
  2. sandbags: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sandbags: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sandbags: Vocabulary.com
  5. Sandbags, sandbags: Wordnik
  6. sandbags: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. sandbags: Wiktionary
  8. sandbags: Dictionary.com
  9. Sandbags: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. sandbags: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sandbags: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sandbags: Encyclopedia

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sandbags: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sandbag)

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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