pack

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Pronunciation
/pæk/
Noun
17 definition(s)
1 Definition

A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale.

Example Sentences
  • The horses carried the packs across the plain.
2 Definition

A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack

3 Definition

A multitude.

Example Sentences
  • a pack of complaints
4 Definition

A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.

5 Definition

A full set of playing cards

Example Sentences
  • We were going to play cards, but nobody brought a pack.
6 Definition

The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game.

Example Sentences
  • cut the pack
7 Definition

A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.

8 Definition

A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.

9 Definition

A group of people associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.

Example Sentences
  • a pack of thieves
10 Definition

A group of Cub Scouts.

11 Definition

A shook of cask staves.

12 Definition

A bundle of sheet iron plates for rolling simultaneously.

13 Definition

A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.

Example Sentences
  • The ship had to sail round the pack of ice.
14 Definition

An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.

15 Definition

: A loose, lewd, or worthless person.

16 Definition

A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.

17 Definition

The forwards in a rugby team (eight in Rugby Union, six in Rugby League) who with the opposing pack constitute the scrum.

Example Sentences
  • The captain had to take a man out of the pack to replace the injured fullback.
Verb
8 definition(s)
1 Definition

(physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.

2 Definition

(social) To cheat.

3 Definition

To load with a pack

Example Sentences
  • to pack a horse
4 Definition

To load; to encumber.

5 Definition

To move, send or carry.

6 Definition

To block a shot, especially in basketball.

7 Definition

(of the forwards in a rugby team) To play together cohesively, specially with reference to their technique in the scrum.

8 Definition

(of a drag king, transman, etc.) To wear a prosthetic penis inside one’s trousers for better verisimilitude.