hackeysack

Meaning

Noun

  • A non-competition sport in which a small sack, or "hack", full of rice or sand is kept from falling to the ground by using any part of the body except the arms.
  • The sack used in this sport.

Origin

  • 1970s trademark, coined arbitrarily by John Stalberger, presumably from hacky + sack.

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