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  • adjective idiomatic Sound asleep, usually from a healthy exhaustion.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of sack out.

Etymologies

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Outgrowth of the earlier idiom, to hit the sack ("to lie down to sleep"), with possible influences from other senses of to sack ("to tackle, to pillage"), and to sock ("to hit, to slam"), providing an implication that sleep has been thrust upon a person.

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