Definition of "sandbags" [sandbags]

• Plural form of sandbag. (noun)

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• "Big sandbags is what we have come up with 36 hours after the levee has broken."
• "Photo by Kenneth Helphand.) (Helphand writes, In the 1990-91 Gulf War, a green tarp held down by sandbags is transformed into 'lawns,' with a sign warning 'stay off.'"
• "At 10.30 one morning I crawled over the parapet -- that is, the sandbags -- of our trench to sketch the picture of which this distillery shaft is the central feature."