SAC: Strategic Air Command. Multi-service command structure in the United States military from the 1950s through the 1990s tasked with the conduct of nuclear war. Replaced by STRATCOM.

Sac (?), n. Ethnol.

See Sace.

 

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Sac, n. [See Sake, Soc.] O.Eng.Law

The privilege formerly enjoyed the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines.

Cowell.

 

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Sac (?), n. [F., fr. L. saccus a sack. See Sack a bag.]

1.

See 2d Sack.

2. Biol.

A cavity, bag, or receptacle, usually containing fluid, and either closed, or opening into another cavity to the exterior; a sack.

 

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Sacs (?), n. pl.; sing. Sac (). Ethnol.

A tribe of Indians, which, together with the Foxes, formerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin.

[Written also Sauks.]

 

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