to pack
- verb
- /pæk/
- One middle-class Nairobi family planned to pack up as much as they could and head for Tanzania.
- pack your bags
- pack your things
- pack your belongings
But now I'm planning to turn my back, pack my bags and leave.
- But now I'm planning to turn my back, pack my bags and leave.
- So clearly they were packing it up in a freaking hurry.
- One from Texas, one from Connecticut, hours they packed up and left hours.
Examples
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Let's just pack up some food and get out of here.
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Make sure to pack enough clothes for our trip to the beach.
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So we are really starting to pack all this stuff up.
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So we're going to pack and clean up right now.
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You know, I leave town tomorrow after we pack up.
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We should pack our bags and leave this place immediately.
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We have three days left to pack before the new owners take possession of the house.
Fiction book (1990) -
Kind of made a pile of things to pack for our holiday.
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You're gonna need to pack some pajamas for tomorrow.
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I need to pack.
Synonyms
To put things into a box for transport or storage
Pack things tightly into a small space to save room
To put things into a container for storage or transport
To put things into a bag, for example when shopping
To put something into a bag for carrying
To put your things into bags before you travel or move, like clothes and chargers
To put goods into a container for transport
To wrap something in paper or a box to send
To wrap things together to send or store
To put something into a small bag for carrying or keeping
Antonyms
Idioms
- Offensive
Put people very close together with almost no space between them
Phrasal Verbs
- Offensive
To put your things into bags before you travel or move, like clothes and chargers
Compounds
- US
A clear plastic cover with small bubbles that holds a product on a piece of cardboard
How Full
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pack as a verb comes from the idea of making a bundle, the same root in package and backpack. So to pack is to put things together into a box, bag, or space for storage or travel.