pack

Fetched 2026-10-27 (live).

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Noun

1. 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.
   • The horses carried the packs across the plain.
2. A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
3. A multitude.
   • a pack of lies
   • a pack of complaints
4. A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
5. A full set of playing cards
   • We were going to play cards, but nobody brought a pack.
6. The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game.
   • cut the pack
7. A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or living together.
8. A group of wolves, hunting together.
9. A flock of knots.
10. A group of people associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
    • a pack of thieves
11. A group of Cub Scouts.
12. A shook of cask staves.
13. A bundle of sheet iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
14. A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
    • The ship had to sail round the pack of ice.
15. An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
16. A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
    • That stupid pack did nothing but stare at us throughout the whole project.
17. A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
18. The forwards in a rugby team (eight in Rugby Union, six in Rugby League) who with the opposing pack constitute the scrum.
    • The captain had to take a man out of the pack to replace the injured fullback.
19. The largest group of blockers from both teams skating in close proximity.
20. A package of cigarettes.
    • “Carlo, I told you that three packs a day would kill you long before I was gone.”

Verb

1. To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport. To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack
   • to pack goods in a box; to pack fish
   • to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater
   • The doctor gave Kelly some sulfa pills and packed his arm in hot-water bags.
   • to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine; pack someone's arm with ice.
   • the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well
   • the grouse or the perch begin to pack
2. To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack
   • to pack goods in a box; to pack fish
3. To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into.
   • to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater
4. To wrap in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
   • The doctor gave Kelly some sulfa pills and packed his arm in hot-water bags.
5. To make impervious, such as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without allowing air, water, or steam inside.
   • to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine; pack someone's arm with ice.
6. To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
7. To form a compact mass, especially in order for transportation.
   • the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well
8. To gather together in flocks, herds, schools or similar groups of animals.
   • the grouse or the perch begin to pack
9. To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission.
10. To compress (data).
11. To cheat. To sort and arrange (the cards) in the pack to give oneself an unfair advantage To bring together or make up unfairly, in order to secure a certain result.
    • to pack a jury
12. To sort and arrange (the cards) in the pack to give oneself an unfair advantage
13. To bring together or make up unfairly, in order to secure a certain result.
    • to pack a jury
14. To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
15. To put together for morally wrong purposes; to join in cahoots.
16. To load with a pack.
    • to pack a horse
17. To load; to encumber.
18. To move, send or carry. To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off.
    • to pack a boy off to school
    • packing heat
    • A: What was he packing? B: He was packing an M1911 with a custom large-capacity magazine.
    • Wow, get a load of him — he's packing.
19. To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off.
    • to pack a boy off to school
20. To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (on the backs of men or animals).
21. To depart in haste; – generally with off or away.
22. To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.
    • packing heat
    • A: What was he packing? B: He was packing an M1911 with a custom large-capacity magazine.
23. To have a large penis, as if carrying a large weapon on one's person.
    • Wow, get a load of him — he's packing.
24. To wear an object, such as a prosthetic penis, inside one’s trousers to appear more male or masculine.
25. To block a shot, especially in basketball.
26. To play together cohesively, specially with reference to technique in the scrum.

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