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单词 hacky-sack
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hacky-sackn.

Brit. /ˈhakɪsak/, U.S. /ˈhækiˌsæk/
Forms: 1900s– hackie-sack, 1900s– hackey-sack, 1900s– hacky-sack, 1900s– hackysack. Also with capital initials.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: English hacky , sack n.1
Etymology: < hacky ( < hack v.1 + -y suffix6) + sack n.1, apparently as an alteration of hack the sack, a name for the game.On the underlying phrase compare:2003 Teacher's Calendar 2003–2004 1/2 Footbag..became popular in the United States in 1972 when John Stalberger was looking for ways to exercise his knee after surgery. He started kicking around a handmade beanbag with friend Mike Marshall... They called their game ‘Hack the Sack’, but later trademarked their invention under the name ‘Hacky Sack®’.
Originally U.S.
A proprietary name for: a type of small, round footbag designed to be kicked in the air; (also) any of various games played with such a footbag, in which two or more players pass the bag using legs and feet, without allowing it to touch the ground. Cf. footbag n. at foot n. and int. Compounds 3.
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1977 Walla Walla (Washington) Union-Bull. 22 July 6/2 Hacky sack is a new game that has caught on in the Milton-Freewater area.
1981 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 6 Oct. tm2/1 Hacky Sack... For footbags used in a kicking game.
1984 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 12 Feb. i. 28/1 At Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania it is called a Hacky Sack, at the University of Delaware a footbag.
1992 D. Coupland Shampoo Planet xlviii. 217 Blue-jeaned employees playing with hackeysacks during lunch hour.
2015 L. Margolis If I Were You 104 We've finished our picnic dinner and are playing hacky sack.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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