unpack

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You might just as well unpack, and wait for the next boat, like the rest of us. "

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  1. transitive verb To remove the contents of (a suitcase, for example).
  2. transitive verb To remove from a container, from packaging, or from packing.
  3. transitive verb To remove a pack from (a pack animal).
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  • Nobody had bothered to unpack -- nobody had bothered to do much of anything all summer -- and I was hoping to find my old teddy bear in one of the boxes. —  F ;SF; - vol 104 issue 03 - March 2003
  • I left for my past home along the beach in a fog of concern: too many boxes still to unpack, the aftermath of Christmas, and fretting over my impending session of school. —  Berlin's Whimsy
  • Once installed, the gems can be moved into your Rails application using one of the commands rake gems: unpack or rake gems: unpack: dependencies. —  Pathfinder Development
  • To unpack, tar xfz package. tgz or unzip package. zip. —  LXer Linux News
  • Since the beginning of the console gamers have complained that the PS3 has forced them to abandon the former gamer ritual and buy, unpack and play, adding the additional and sometimes painful step of WAIT between savage unpack (ripping off shrinkwrap is always fun) and the satisfying play. —  PS3 NEWS - PlayStation 3 News - PS3News - PS3 Games - PS3 Hacks - PS3 Homebrew
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