| pack | |
| 1. n. 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. n. A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack | |
| 3. n. a multitude. | |
| a pack of lies | |
| a pack of complaints | |
| 4. n. A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective. | |
| 5. n. 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. n. A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together. | |
| 7. n. A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together. | |
| 8. n. A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang. | |
| a pack of thieves or knaves | |
| 9. n. A group of Cub Scouts. | |
| 10. n. A shook of cask staves. | |
| 11. n. A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously. | |
| 12. n. 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. n. (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. n. (slang): A loose, lewd, or worthless person. | |
| 15. n. (snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker. | |
| 16. n. (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. | |
