Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A knapsack, often mounted on a lightweight frame, that is worn on a person's back, as to carry camping supplies.
- n. A piece of equipment, often containing life-support devices, designed to be used while being carried on the back: a parachute in a backpack; an astronaut's backpack.
- v. To hike while carrying a backpack.
- v. To carry in a backpack.
Wiktionary
- n. 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.
- n. A similarly placed item containing a parachute or other life-support equipment.
- v. intransitive To hike and camp overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.
- v. intransitive To engage in low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodations.
- v. transitive To place or carry (an item or items) in a backpack.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a bag carried on the back, supported by straps looped over the shoulders.
- v. to hike while carrying a backpack; -- often used in the form
go backpacking .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder
- n. a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder
- v. hike with a backpack
Etymologies
- back + pack (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Actually, my backpack is a carry-on or “hand luggage”.”
Hand Luggage Only: The Big Lessons Learned | Lifehacker Australia
“June 4th, 2010 at 7: 50 am drugs in backpack in: Science & Technology News”
1 in 5 High School Students in the U.S. Abuse Prescription Drugs drugs in backpack – Impact Lab
“No Daddy following you around to be sure your backpack is fully loaded.”
“Finally, the best way to support your Fen of Color, besides just listening and unpacking your backpack, is to buy and support Authors and Artists of Color.”
“Elayna's backpack is packed, and her outfit is carefully chosen, and tomorrow she will start high school.”
“That said, the backpack is still the easiest solution.”
“I'd been living out of a backpack from the end of August, traversing many different climates.”
“The maximum weight you can carry in this backpack is equivalent to the mandays budget for your project.”
“Brushing English setter hair off his backpack is part of getting ready for school, and picking pelle out of his teeth is dinner-table routine.”
“While driving by slowly, we see couples housed in backpack tents, families nestled under huge piles of blankets and playing board games, folks dozing fitfully in sleeping bags - the family at the front of the line has removed the back seat from their van and are using it as a couch as they walk around, trying to keep warm.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘backpack’.
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back phrases/hyphens/compounds
backache to backyard
back-ache, back-aching, back-acter, back-acting, back-answer, back-bar, back-basket, back beat, back-bias, back-blast, back-blowing, back-boiler and 342 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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Containers
Stuff that holds other stuff.
cardboard box, jar, filing cabinet, safe deposit box, cupboard, wardrobe, jewel case, briefcase, locker, canopic jar, chest of drawers, paper sack and 208 more...
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Words I like
This is a list of my favourite words (phrases) in english, as a second language. I love them mostly because of how they sound and their meaning.
ninja, cookie, skill, zip, plentiful, digg, debris, pancake, cucumber, fetch, pot, backpack and 461 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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junestag's Words
postmodernism, cat, fish, rabbit, dell, coffee, elearning, mazda, php, mysql, flash, blogger and 755 more...
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words my 19-month-old daughter says
We'll skip people's names.
basketball, light, railroad, mommy, daddy, up, hand, gate, walk, kitty, doggie, cat and 145 more...
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Ute
Durable items invented by Hom. Sap.
alpenhorn, matchbox, plinth, pillow, cantilever, fulcrum, troika, cloverleaf, nib, wheelbarrow, dictabelt, cockpit and 184 more...
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Front and Back
backchat, backbone, backpack, backhoe, backfire, backhanded, breakfront, beachfront, drawback, effrontery, frontier, switchback and 196 more...
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Aeonn's Words
discombobulation, dank, crass, abolishment, quite, ubiquitous, crank, catapult, sponge, click, queer, irish and 124 more...
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Bags baby, bags
Bags, bags, bags
They're very useful things
If we didn't have bags
What would we use
To put all our things in.backpack, satchel, haversack, shopping, messenger, calico, duffel, burlap sack, tea, handbag, briefcase, sleeping and 5 more...
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Bags of Holding
duffel, backpack, purse, bindle, briefcase, fanny pack, messenger bag, satchel, suitcase, tote, manbag, murse and 14 more...
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The State that I am in
A list of differences between living in New York and living in Italy.
bidet, postal service, public transporta..., text messaging, voicemail, the north face, starbucks, pizza, spitting, gay public displa..., coffee, tipping and 17 more...
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Stuffie: And The Green Grass Grows Al...
Stuffie #13. Stuff you take stuff out of.
box, bag, closet, back room, context, paycheck, thin air, the mouths of babes, my head, my mouth, your recess, storage and 5 more...
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monovocalic trysyllable
There must be some natural English word that contains the same vowel three times. 'English' excludes Bopomofo and Rin Tin Tin; 'natural' excludes contrived things like highlight-like, unhumdrum. An...
abdabs, alate, aye-aye, backpack, bedstead, bow-wow, civic, deadhead, dojo, earthwork, earthworm, forecourt and 43 more...
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beautiful things
Tweets
Looking for tweets for backpack.
Prolagus yarb, I don't know if there is something missing, since I can't remember what was in it... Mar 26, 2009
mollusque Nobody is listing scroat. Why don't you? Mar 26, 2009
bilby Try Asia, Pro. If your backpack's not open a scroat with a knife will give you some help. Mar 26, 2009
sionnach I love to go a wan-der-ing
Along a mountain track.
Oh I love to go a wan-der-ing
With my backpack on my back.
Fol-de-ree-ee
Fol-de-rah-ah
Fol-de-ree-ee
Fol-de-rah-hah-hah-hah-hah-hah-hah-hah
Fol-de-ree-ee
Fol-de-rah-ah
With my back pack on my back! Mar 25, 2009
chained_bear You know, it's definitely a good thing that Pro's belongings aren't missing now, but I have to say, New Yorkers are much friendlier and saner than they are usually given credit for.
But I still like all those crazy New York stories. :) Mar 25, 2009
sionnach My thoughts exactly. We were just having a conversation in class this morning about ways to invite petty theft of one's personal belongings on the streets of Madrid. The open backpack was high on the list. (Unfortunately, looking Japanese or Korean seemed to top the list). Mar 25, 2009
yarb Instead of being surprised that no one told you, you should be surprised that no-one removed the contents. Mar 25, 2009
Prolagus This morning, for the second time, I left the house I live in with my backpack open. Not until I sat on the train I realized that, since no one of the fifty people (maybe more) that saw it told me.
Welcome to New York City. Mar 25, 2009
yarb It's a story with relevance for us all. Turn again, chained_bear! Nov 17, 2007
chained_bear Thrice mayor of London!
This is way off topic, but I remember when I discovered that Dick Whittington really *was* Mayor of London. I was thrilled. Nov 17, 2007
yarb On a day-trip I would pack a haversack. But not for a long voyage. Unless I was doing it in a Dick Whittington-style. Nov 17, 2007
reesetee What, no haversack? Nov 17, 2007
yarb It's the only kind of luggage for me! Nov 16, 2007