pack

noun packs

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
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.

   Similar: deck

6. The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game. cut the pack
7. collective A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or living together. African wild dogs hunt by sight, although stragglers use their noses to follow the pack.
8. collective A group of wolves, hunting together. If I hurried down to the river, he said, I should be sure to fall in with a pack of wolves, for just as he was driving up the hill close to the sound, they started up the river on the ice.

   Similar: wolfpack

9. A flock of knots. They form extremely tight flocks, which carpet the ground, giving rise to the descriptive name of "a pack" 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. slang 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. slang A package of cigarettes. “Carlo, I told you that three packs a day would kill you long before I was gone.”

verb packs · packing · packed

1. physical, transitive 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
2. physical, transitive 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
3. physical, transitive 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.
4. physical, transitive 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.
5. intransitive, physical To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
6. intransitive, physical To form a compact mass, especially in order for transportation. the goods pack conveniently;  wet snow packs well
7. intransitive, physical, of animals To gather together in flocks, herds, schools or similar groups of animals. the grouse or the perch begin to pack
8. historical, physical, transitive To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission.
9. physical, transitive To compress (data).
10. transitive To sort and arrange (the cards) in the pack to give oneself an unfair advantage Mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown.

    Similar: stack

11. transitive To bring together or make up unfairly, in order to secure a certain result. to pack a jury
12. transitive To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
13. intransitive To put together for morally wrong purposes; to join in cahoots. This naughty man / Shall face to face be brought to Margaret, / Who, I believe, was pack'd in all this wrong, / Hired to it by your brother.
14. transitive To load with a pack. to pack a horse
15. figuratively, transitive To load; to encumber. our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey
16. transitive 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
17. US, Western, transitive To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (on the backs of men or animals).
18. intransitive To depart in haste; – generally with off or away. Poor Stella must pack off to town.
19. slang, transitive To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person. packing heat
20. ambitransitive, slang To have a large penis, as if carrying a large weapon on one's person. Wow, get a load of him — he's packing.
21. especially, intransitive, of a trans man or drag king To wear an object, such as a prosthetic penis, inside one’s trousers to appear more male or masculine. I am a butch bisexual woman […] Frequently I like to appear as masculine as I can, often passing for male on the street. […] Sometimes I pack when I go out, putting my dildo in my pants and wearing my dick out of the house.
22. slang, transitive To block a shot, especially in basketball.
23. intransitive, of the forwards in a rugby team To play together cohesively, specially with reference to technique in the scrum.

Opposite: unpack