backpack
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[edit]Noun
[edit]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 […]
- 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 77:
- Many seats carry reservation labels, while the luggage racks are festooned with backpacks and suitcases.
- A similarly placed item containing a parachute or other life-support equipment.
Synonyms
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[edit]- creel (shoulder-slung types)
Derived terms
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[edit]worn on a person's back, e.g., for hiking
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containing parachute
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Verb
[edit]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 accommodation.
- (transitive, rare) To place or carry (an item or items) in a backpack.
- 2020, Akara September 2020 Magazine, page 103:
- I planned to go to jungle today and backpacked my things which contained [sic] food and a note book.
Derived terms
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[edit]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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