pack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæk/
ipa: [pʰæk]
homophone: PAC
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: packs
form: packing
form: packed
form: packed
Etymology: From Middle English pakken, from the noun (see above). Compare Middle Dutch packen (“to pack”), Middle Low German packen (“to pack”).
Senses: examples: text: to pack goods in a box;  to pack fish
text: strange materials wound up in that shape and texture, and packed together with wonderful art in the several cavities of the skull
ref: 1712, Joseph Addison, The Spectator, number 275:
text: Where, for these many hundred years, the bones
Of all my buried ancestors are packed
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: 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
examples: text: to pack a trunk;  the play, or the audience, packs the theater
text: By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
ref: 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:
text: The mix of ballet vocabulary, modern techniques and African steps is familiar, but the extent to which Mr. Rhoden packs — and overpacks — phrases, cultivates warp-speed delivery and hyperextends every possible hip jut and arabesque is, thank goodness, something special to Complexions.
ref: 2007 November 23, Claudia La Rocco, “Ballet and African Steps, Delivered at Warp Speed”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
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.
examples: text: The doctor gave Kelly some sulfa pills and packed his arm in hot-water bags.
glosses: To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
To wrap in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
examples: text: to pack a joint;  to pack the piston of a steam engine;  pack someone's arm with ice.
glosses: To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
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.
glosses: To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
examples: text: the goods pack conveniently;  wet snow packs well
glosses: To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
To form a compact mass, especially in order for transportation.
examples: text: the grouse or the perch begin to pack
glosses: To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
To gather together in flocks, herds, schools or similar groups of animals.
raw_tags: of animals
glosses: To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission.
examples: text: Mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown.
ref: 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:
topics: card-games
games
qualifier: social
glosses: To cheat.
To sort and arrange (the cards) in the pack to give oneself an unfair advantage
examples: text: to pack a jury
text: The expected council was dwindling into[…]a packed assembly of Italian bishops.
ref: 1687, Francis Atterbury, An answer to some considerations on the spirit of Martin Luther and the original of the Reformation:
qualifier: social
glosses: To cheat.
To bring together or make up unfairly, in order to secure a certain result.
examples: ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, “He lost life […] upon a nice point subtilely devised and packed by his enemies.”, in The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
qualifier: social
glosses: To cheat.
To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
qualifier: social
glosses: To cheat.
To put together for morally wrong purposes; to join in cahoots.
examples: text: to pack a horse
glosses: To load with a pack.
examples: text: our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: To load; to encumber.
examples: text: to pack a boy off to school
text: Till George be packed with post horse up to heaven.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: 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.
glosses: To move, send or carry.
To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (on the backs of men or animals).
examples: text: Poor Stella must pack off to town.
ref: 1723, Jonathan Swift, Stella at Wood-Park:
text: You shall pack, / And never more darken my doors again.
ref: 1842, Alfred Tennyson, Dora:
glosses: To move, send or carry.
To depart in haste; – generally with off or away.
examples: text: packing heat
text: A: What was he packing? B: He was packing an M1911 with a custom large-capacity magazine.
glosses: To move, send or carry.
To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.
examples: text: Wow, get a load of him — he's packing.
glosses: To move, send or carry.
To have a large penis, as if carrying a large weapon on one's person.
qualifier: progressive aspect
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1995, Robin Sweeney, “Too Butch to Be Bi (or You Can't Judge a Boy by Her Lover)”, in Naomi Tucker, Liz Highleyman, Rebecca Kaplan, editors, Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries, and Visions, Binghamton: The Haworth Press, →ISBN, page 181:
glosses: To move, send or carry.
To wear an object, such as a prosthetic penis, inside one’s trousers to appear more male or masculine.
raw_tags: of a trans man or drag king
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To block a shot, especially in basketball.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: To play together cohesively, specially with reference to technique in the scrum.
raw_tags: of the forwards in a rugby team
Synonyms: sense: To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly
word: stack
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from pack (verb)
word: copack
sense: terms derived from pack (verb)
word: depack
sense: terms derived from pack (verb)
word: mispack
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word: packability
sense: terms derived from pack (verb)
word: packable
sense: terms derived from pack (verb)
word: pack a lunch
sense: terms derived from pack (verb)
word: pack and play
sense: terms derived from pack (verb)
word: pack a punch
sense: terms derived from pack (verb)
word: pack a sad
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word: pack a wallop
sense: terms derived from pack (verb)
word: pack away
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word: packer
sense: terms derived from pack (verb)
word: pack fudge
sense: terms derived from pack (verb)
word: pack heat
sense: terms derived from pack (verb)
word: pack in
sense: terms derived from pack (verb)
word: pack off
sense: terms derived from pack (verb)
word: pack on
sense: terms derived from pack (verb)
word: pack one's bags
sense: terms derived from pack (verb)
word: pack on pounds
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word: pack on the pounds
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word: pack out
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word: pack shit
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word: pack up
sense: terms derived from pack (verb)
word: pamper pack
sense: terms derived from pack (verb)
word: pick and pack
sense: terms derived from pack (verb)
word: prepack
sense: terms derived from pack (verb)
word: repack
sense: terms derived from pack (verb)
word: stack-and-pack
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word: underpack
sense: terms derived from pack (verb)
word: vacuum pack