sack lunch

English

Noun

sack lunch (plural sack lunches)

1. (US) A packed lunch in a sack (especially a paper bag); broadly, synonym of packed lunch.
   • 1994, Daniel Fitzgerald, Faded Dreams: More Ghost Towns of Kansas, page 149:

     […] played “black man” and "run sheep run," ate sack lunches, and rushed home after school to bring in the cows […]

Coordinate terms

• box lunch

Related terms

• lunchbox
• plate lunch