The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word RIFLE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result RIFLE
- Dessert, but no starter? One might be fired!
- Toy with no head found in sack
- Weapon — something of little value with tip broken off
- Search thoroughly for weapon
- Anger about loud weapon
- Front bit missing from toy weapon
- Get angry about France’s no.1 weapon
- Cap removed from toy firearm
- Plunder weapon
- Anger about loud firearm
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The straight part
We know that "Sack" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case sack = rifle.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does RIFLE mean?
RIFLE noun- A shouldered firearm with a long, rifled barrel to improve range and accuracy.
- (usually plural) A rifleman.
- An artillery piece with a rifled barrel.
- A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
- To quickly search through many items (such as papers, the contents of a drawer, a pile of clothing). (See also rifflehttp//verbmall.blogspot.com/2008/05/riffle-or-rifle.html)
- To commit robbery or theft.
- To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.
- To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
- To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
- To add a spiral groove to a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight in order to improve range and accuracy.
- To cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory.
- To move in a flat ballistic trajectory (as a rifle bullet).
- To dispose of in a raffle.
- To engage in a raffle.