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Etymology

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Fromback +‎pack.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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backpack (pluralbackpacks)

  1. Aknapsack, sometimesmounted on a lightframe, but always supported bystraps, worn on a person’s back for the purpose ofcarrying things, especially whenhiking, or on a student's back whencarrying books.
    • 2011, Thelma J. Miller,What's in Your Backpack?, page 8:
      Rachel discovered that she could also keep things in herbackpack 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”, inRAIL, number971, page77:
      Many seats carry reservation labels, while the luggage racks are festooned withbackpacks and suitcases.
  2. A similarly placed item containing aparachute or otherlife-supportequipment.

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Hyponyms

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  • creel(shoulder-slung types)

Derived terms

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Translations

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worn on a person's back, e.g., for hiking
containing parachute

Verb

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backpack (third-person singular simple presentbackpacks,present participlebackpacking,simple past and past participlebackpacked)

  1. (intransitive) To hike and camp overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.
  2. (intransitive) To engage in low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodation.
  3. (transitive, rare) To place or carry (an item or items) in a backpack.
    • 2020,Akara September 2020 Magazine, page103:
      I planned to go to jungle today andbackpacked my things which contained[sic] food and a note book.

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Translations

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to hike and camp overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack
to place or carry (an item or items) in a backpack
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