1. subst. 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. subst. A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
3. subst. a multitude.
a pack of lies
a pack of complaints
4. subst. A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
5. subst. A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game
We were going to play cards, but nobody brought a pack.
6. subst. A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
7. subst. A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
8. subst. A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
a pack of thieves or knaves
9. subst. A group of Cub Scouts.
10. subst. A shook of cask staves.
11. subst. A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
12. subst. A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
The ship had to sail round the pack of ice.
13. subst. (medicine) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
14. subst. (slang): A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
15. subst. (snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
16. subst. (rugby) The team on the field.
17. v. (physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
18. v. To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close orde
to pack goods in a box; to pack fish
19. v. 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 a
to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater
20. v. To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
The doctor gave Kelly some sulfa pills and packed his arm in hot-water bags.
21. v. To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air
to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine; pack someone's arm with ice.
22. v. (intransitive) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
23. v. (intransitive) To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact
the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well
24. v. (intransitive) To gather in flocks or schools.
the grouse or the perch begin to pack
25. v. (transitive, historical) To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission.
26. v. (social) To cheat, to arrange matters unfairly.
27. v. (transitive, card games) To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.
28. v. To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result.
to pack a jury
29. v. To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
30. v. (intransitive) To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.
31. v. To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber.
to pack a horse
32. v. To move, send or carry.
33. v. To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack
to pack a boy off to school
34. v. (transitive, US, Western US) To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or animals).
35. v. (intransitive) To depart in haste; – generally with off or away.
36. v. (transitive, slang) To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.
37. v. (transitive, sports) To block a shot, especially in basketball.
38. v. (intransitive, LGBT slang) To wear a prosthetic penis inside one’s trousers for better verisimilitude.
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