pack
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 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 kept together.
- 8
A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
- 9
A group of people associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
“a pack of thieves”
- 10
A group of Cub Scouts.
- 11
A shook of cask staves.
- 12
A bundle of sheet iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
- 13
A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
“The ship had to sail round the pack of ice.”
- 14
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
: A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
- 16
A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
- 17
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.”
verb
- 1
(physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
- 2
(social) To cheat.
- 3
To load with a pack
“to pack a horse”
- 4
To load; to encumber.
- 5
To move, send or carry.
- 6
To block a shot, especially in basketball.
- 7
(of the forwards in a rugby team) To play together cohesively, specially with reference to their technique in the scrum.
- 8
(of a drag king, transman, etc.) To wear a prosthetic penis inside one’s trousers for better verisimilitude.
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