Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who uses a sand-bag; especially, a robber who uses a sand-bag to stun his victims.
- noun A sailing boat that uses sand-bags as ballast.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An assaulter whose weapon is a sand bag. See Sand bag, under
sand .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
sandbags (misleads about his/her ability level in order to winbets ); ahustler .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who deceives you about his true nature or intent in order to take advantage of you
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yes | No | Report from KingFisher907 wrote 23 weeks 5 days ago sandbagger - like I said, I misread his post ...
Anybody else hear about the guy that exercised his 2nd amendment right at the Obama rally? 2009
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Yes | No | Report from KingFisher907 wrote 23 weeks 5 days ago sandbagger - like I said, I misread his post ...
Anybody else hear about the guy that exercised his 2nd amendment right at the Obama rally? 2009
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Yes | No | Report from Reid Jones wrote 25 weeks 6 days ago sandbagger ... i can't afford one yet. jeesh.
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Last month, a friend of mine returned from a member-guest tournament complaining about the blatant sandbagger whose two-man team won the overall event, a big trophy and several hundred dollars in pro-shop credit.
Fighting Back Against Sandbaggers John Paul Newport 2011
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Yes | No | Report from Reid Jones wrote 25 weeks 6 days ago sandbagger ... i can't afford one yet. jeesh.
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At least one suspected sandbagger was recently canned.
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"By the way," Jack said calmly, "Did I mention that dickhead over there is the biggest sandbagger in the club?"
Hacker - Death at the Member-Guest Bartlett, James Y. 2004
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But I didn't want to play too safe, because it was a big green and I didn't want to leave myself 50 feet for birdie, which was what I figured I needed to win against Vitus the all-star sandbagger.
Hacker - Death at the Member-Guest Bartlett, James Y. 2004
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Some might suggest the more abstract, such as the unknown sandbagger.
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And in accepting the Finals MVP trophy, even Kobe Bryant, the great sandbagger himself, finally admitted it.
ScrippsNews 2010
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