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- verb intransitive To
pack too much.
Etymologies
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Examples
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One cask model, selling for $1.5 million, places spent fuel inside a stainless steel canister, which is placed inside an "overpack" - an outside shell composed of a layer of carbon steel, 27 inches of concrete and another layer of carbon steel.
The Seattle Times 2011
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In the so-called "overpack" process, the rocket, still in its shipping and firing tube, was placed in a large container designed to hold leaking rockets.
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Those who "overpack" aren't the people who will be most inconvenienced by United Airlines 'new policy of charging $25 to check a second piece of luggage ( "
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The beginning of spring semester marks the time when many of us overpack our bags, triple-check that we have our passports, leave our friends behind and begin a semester abroad.
College Candy: Planes, Trains, Automobiles and Your Study Abroad Group College Candy 2011
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The Republican Right WILL take this country over, and they WILL overpack the Supreme Court.
Matthew Yglesias » Taking on the Banks With Mortgage Cramdowns 2010
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The beginning of spring semester marks the time when many of us overpack our bags, triple-check that we have our passports, leave our friends behind and begin a semester abroad.
College Candy: Planes, Trains, Automobiles and Your Study Abroad Group College Candy 2011
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I am hoping that everything goes smoothly in customs and that I don't overpack.
Gearing up to be a Van City Player again... tragic_elegance 2009
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The beginning of spring semester marks the time when many of us overpack our bags, triple-check that we have our passports, leave our friends behind and begin a semester abroad.
College Candy: Planes, Trains, Automobiles and Your Study Abroad Group College Candy 2011
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The beginning of spring semester marks the time when many of us overpack our bags, triple-check that we have our passports, leave our friends behind and begin a semester abroad.
College Candy: Planes, Trains, Automobiles and Your Study Abroad Group College Candy 2011
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(I doubt that people vastly overpack when they don't have to pay extra to take a bag with them.)
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