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hardpacks

hardpacks is the plural of hardpack.

Meaning of hardpack

Noun

hardpack (countable and uncountable, plural hardpacks)

  1. (uncountable) A material (such as dirt, gravel, or snow) compressed into a hard, smooth surface for roads etc.
    • The muzzle was filled for some inches with hardpack snow, after he had dug that out with his knife, he found the lock frozen up and snow all over the nipple.1918, The Industrial Enterprise, volume 25, number 4, page 1
  2. (countable) A hard package, especially of cigarettes.
    • That's where she met Vic--tall, hawkfaced, blackhaired, wearing tight Levis and a black T-shirt with the pocket over his heart stretched around a hardpack box of Parliaments.1978, Russell Banks, The New World: Tales, page 25

Questions about hardpacks

What is hardpacks the plural of?
Hardpacks is the plural of hardpack.

Words near hardpacks in the dictionary

  1. hardos
  2. hardover
  3. hardovers
  4. hardpack
  5. hardpacked
  6. hardpacks
  7. hardpad
  8. hardpan
  9. hardpanned
  10. hardpans
  11. hardpaste

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