Definition of "sandbag" [sand•bag]

• A bag filled with sand and used as ballast, in the formation of protective walls, or as a weapon. (noun)
• To put sandbags in or around. (verb-transitive)
• To hit with a sandbag. (verb-transitive)
• Slang To treat severely or unjustly. (verb-transitive)
• Slang To force by crude means; coerce: sandbagged us into cleaning up their mess. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Ludlum stressed that long-term sandbag storage is a pilot project."
• "First, while a sandbag is the building block of a levee, no one sandbag can do what the whole levee does."
• "I'm thinking shooting offhand is true love and a sandbag is a one night stand."