Word: pack Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English pakken, from the noun (see above). Compare Middle Dutch packen (“to pack”), Middle Low German packen (“to pack”). Pronunciation: /pæk/, [pʰæk] 1. To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport. Labels: physical, transitive Example: to pack goods in a box; to pack fish Example: strange materials wound up in that shape and texture, and packed together with wonderful art in the several cavities of the skull 2. To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport. Labels: physical, transitive Example: to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater Example: 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. 3. To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport. Labels: physical, transitive Example: The doctor gave Kelly some sulfa pills and packed his arm in hot-water bags. 4. To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport. Labels: physical, transitive Example: to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine; pack someone's arm with ice. 5. To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport. Labels: intransitive, physical 6. To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport. Labels: intransitive, physical Example: the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well 7. To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport. Labels: intransitive, physical Example: the grouse or the perch begin to pack 8. To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport. Labels: historical, physical, transitive 9. To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport. Labels: physical, transitive 10. To cheat. Labels: transitive Example: Mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown. 11. To cheat. Labels: transitive Example: to pack a jury Example: The expected council was dwindling into[…]a packed assembly of Italian bishops. 12. To cheat. Labels: transitive 13. To cheat. Labels: intransitive Example: 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. To load with a pack. Labels: transitive Example: to pack a horse 15. To load; to encumber. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey 16. To move, send or carry. Labels: transitive Example: to pack a boy off to school Example: Till George be packed with post horse up to heaven. 17. To move, send or carry. Labels: US, Western, transitive 18. To move, send or carry. Labels: intransitive Example: Poor Stella must pack off to town. Example: You shall pack, / And never more darken my doors again. 19. To move, send or carry. Labels: slang, transitive Example: packing heat Example: A: What was he packing? B: He was packing an M1911 with a custom large-capacity magazine. 20. To move, send or carry. Labels: slang, transitive Example: Wow, get a load of him — he's packing. 21. To move, send or carry. Labels: especially, intransitive Example: 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. To block a shot, especially in basketball. Labels: slang, transitive 23. To play together cohesively, specially with reference to technique in the scrum. Labels: intransitive