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pk

pk is the abbreviation of pack.

Meaning of pack

Noun

pack (plural packs)

  1. 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.
  2. A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
  3. A multitude.
    • a pack of lies
  4. A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
  5. A full set of playing cards
    • We were going to play cards, but nobody brought a pack.
    Synonyms:
    deck
  6. The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game.
    • cut the pack

See all 43 meanings of pack

Noun capitalized: PK

PK (countable and uncountable, plural PKs)

  1. (US, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of preacher's kid, pastor's kid, or priest's kid: the child of a clergyman and/or clergywoman, especially Protestant.
    • The traditional community image of the pk (preacher's kid) and the social control function of gossip in relation to the minister's wife underline the interlocking nature […]1906, Association of Professors and Researchers in Religious Education, Religious Education
    • I was a typical PK (preacher's kid), full of mischief, full of life and insatiable curiosity.1998, Dr. H. Beecher Hicks, Jr., My Soul's Been Anchored: A Preacher's Heritage in the Faith
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of psychokinesis.
    • The question here is: were the extrachance scores due to the subject's precognition of the next target, or rather to his PK acting upon the electron flow and thus determining the target?1977, Stanley Krippner, Psychokinesis, page 95
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of primary key.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism, roleplaying games) Initialism of player kill(er/ing).
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of placekicker.
  6. (US, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of penalty kick.
  7. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of penalty kill(ing).
  8. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of protein kinase.
  9. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of pharmacokinetics.
  10. (abbreviation, informal, initialism) Initialism of painkiller.
    • I know a guy who had surgery done and he is now addicted to the PKs. I had a problem with a popular recreational substance about ten years ago and I'm realy not looking forward to counting that coup again. As it is now, I have a pile of PKs that the doc. gave me. I don't use them unless I can't...1999 January 4, Kelly Potts, “Re: genetic traits”, in alt.native (Usenet)
    • But between the Toradol, Sudafed, Adderall, Vicodin, Percocet, and other PKs (painkillers), you didn't really need to buy street drugs. You could find the right state of mind right in the trainer's room.2017, Sean Avery, Offside: My Life Crossing the Line, [Toronto]: Viking Press, →ISBN, page unknown
  11. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of penetrating keratoplasty.

Synonyms of pk

Forms of pk

pluralpks
pluralPKs

Words formed from pk

Phrases with pk

Questions about pk

What is pk the abbreviation of?
Pk is the abbreviation of pack.
What part of speech is pk?
Pk is a noun.
What is the plural of pk?
The plural of pk is pks.

Words near pk in the dictionary

  1. PJAs
  2. PJO
  3. PJP
  4. PJs
  5. PJSK
  6. pk
  7. PK nail
  8. PK nails
  9. PKA
  10. pkaila
  11. PKAN

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pk (page history and authors); PK (page history and authors); pack (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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