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back pack

back pack is the alternative form of backpack.

Meaning of backpack

Noun

backpack (plural backpacks)

  1. 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.
    • Rachel discovered that she could also keep things in her backpack 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 […]2011, Thelma J. Miller, What's in Your Backpack?, page 8
  2. A similarly placed item containing a parachute or other life support equipment.

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Forms of back pack

pluralback packs

Questions about back pack

What is back pack the alternative form of?
Back pack is the alternative form of backpack.

Words near back pack in the dictionary

  1. back order
  2. back ordered
  3. back ordering
  4. back orders
  5. back out
  6. back pack
  7. back packs
  8. back page
  9. back pages
  10. back pain
  11. back pains

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Adapted from Wiktionary: back pack (page history and authors); backpack (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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