Usually means: Unhappy person with chronic misfortune.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word sad sack:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. sad-sack, sad sack: Merriam-Webster
  2. sad sack: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sad sack: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sad sack: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sad sack: Vocabulary.com
  6. sad-sack: Wordnik
  7. sad-sack: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sad sack: Wiktionary
  9. sad sack: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. sad sack: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. sad-sack, sad sack: Dictionary.com
  12. Sad Sack, Sad sack, The Sad Sack: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. sad sack: Rhymezone
  14. sad sack: FreeDictionary.org
  15. sad sack: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. sad sack: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sad Sack: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sad sack: A Word A Day
  2. sad sack: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sad sack, sad sack: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sad sack: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. sad sack: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sad-sack as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sad sack)

noun:  An incompetent or inept person.
noun:  A perennial failure or victim of misfortune.

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