backpack
English
Alternative forms
- back pack
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbæk.pæk/
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Noun
backpack (plural backpacks)
- A knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person’s back for the purpose of carrying things, especially when hiking, or on a student's back when carrying books.
- 2011, Thelma J. Miller, What's in Your Backpack?, page 8:
- Rachel discovered that she could also keep things in her backpack that were important to her, nobody would know about them because they would be hidden. These important things included a small round rock that she had found […]
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- A similarly placed item containing a parachute or other life-support equipment.
Translations
worn on a person's back, e.g., for hiking
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Verb
backpack (third-person singular simple present backpacks, present participle backpacking, simple past and past participle backpacked)
- (intransitive) to hike and camp overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack
- (intransitive) to engage in low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodations
- (transitive) to place or carry (an item or items) in a backpack
Derived terms
- backpacking (noun)
- backpackable
- backpacker
Translations
to hike and camp overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack
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to place or carry (an item or items) in a backpack
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