pack
/pæk/ noun A2- A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale. · The horses carried the packs across the plain.
- A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
- A multitude. · a pack of lies· a pack of complaints
- A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
- A full set of playing cards · We were going to play cards, but nobody brought a pack.
- The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game. · cut the pack
- A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or living together.
- A group of wolves, hunting together.
Plural packs
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- pack away To store away, place out of the way, or stash, especially...
- pack in To give up, to quit.
- pack off To send away, with belongings, for a long time.
- pack on To add (fat, muscle, etc.) so as to increase mass or bulk.
- pack out To fill with spectators, passengers etc.
- pack up To give in; to give up; to leave in defeat.
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There was a chorus of deep growls, and a young wolf in his fourth year flung back Shere Khan’s question to Akela: “What have the Free People to do with a man’s cub?” Now, the Law of the Jungle lays down that if there is any dispute as to the right of a cub to be accepted by the Pack, he must be spoken for by at least two members of the Pack who are not his father and mother.
Then the only other creature who is allowed at the Pack Council--Baloo, the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle: old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey--rose upon his hind quarters and grunted.
TWO MULES well-laden with packs were trudging along.
At once there came running to her from all directions a pack of great wolves.
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