Crossword clues for backpack
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
backpack \back"pack\ n. a bag carried on the back, supported by straps looped over the shoulders.
Syn: knapsack; rucksack; haversack. [WordNet 1.5]
backpack \back"pack\ v. i. to hike while carrying a backpack; -- often used in the form go backpacking; as, to backpack through the forest.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 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 hike, or on a student's back when carry books. 2 A similarly placed item containing a parachute or other life-support equipment. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To hike and camp overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack. 2 (context intransitive English) To engage in low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodations. 3 (context transitive English) To place or carry (an item or items) in a backpack.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A backpack — also called bookbag, kitbag, knapsack, rucksack, pack, or sackpack — is, in its simplest form, a cloth sack carried on one's back and secured with two straps that go over the shoulders, but there can be variations. Lightweight types of backpacks are sometimes worn on only one shoulder strap.
Backpacks are commonly used by hikers and students, and are often preferred to handbags for carrying heavy loads or carrying any sort of equipment, because of the limited capacity to carry heavy weights for long periods of time in the hands.
Large backpacks, used to carry loads over 10 kg (22 lbs), as well as smaller sports backpacks (e.g. running, cycling, hiking and hydration), usually offload the largest part (up to about 90%) of their weight onto padded hip belts, leaving the shoulder straps mainly for stabilising the load. This improves the potential to carry heavy loads, as the hips are stronger than the shoulders, and also increases agility and balance, since the load rides nearer the wearer's own center of mass.
In ancient times, the backpack was used as a means to carry the hunter's larger game and other types of prey and as a way of easier transport for other materials. In the cases of larger hunts, the hunters would dismember their prey and distribute the pieces of the animal around, each one packing the meat into many wrappings and then into bags which they placed on to their backs. The bag itself would be made up of animal hide and skin and sewn together by animal intestines, which would be woven together tightly to make a sturdy thread-like material.
Backpack can mean:
- Backpack (also called rucksack, knapsack, packsack, pack, or Bergen), a cloth sack carried on one's back and secured with straps
- The part of some sorts of equipment (e.g. breathing sets, flamethrowers) which is carried on the back
- Backpack, a song by Justin Bieber featuring Lil Wayne in Journals
- Plymouth Backpack, a concept car
- A character in Dora the Explorer
- Mozilla Backpack, a digital backpack to gather one's Open Badges
Usage examples of "backpack".
He hefted his backpack onto his broad shoulders and all but ran from her office.
They fumbled with levers embedded in their integral backpacks, setting in motion some powerful, hidden engine that dragged them off the streets and into the air as the belt-pulley turned, its powerful cogs interlocking and hauling the dark, bulky figures back up into the belly of their airship.
Nearby, a trio of Coloradans were painting Canadian flags on the back of their backpacks both as antiterrorism talismans and as their free ticket into the Saint-Jean-Baptiste celebrations to be held that night at the Quebec Delegation building.
Squatting in front of Euterpe, he pulled a complex device from his backpack and prepared to install it.
His orange backpack held a tent and rain fly, food and water, extra clothes and rain gear, backpack stove and fuel, mess gear and first-aid kit, rope, flashlight, insect repellent, a Fiberfill sleeping bag and ground cloth, foam pad, and an assortment of other trail necessities.
Leaning against one of the tall stone pillars, Hala eased her backpack from her shoulders to the ground.
The smaller mantispid had some sort of clear, bubbly backpack along his dorsal ridge, nestled in the V where its main body section joined the prothorax.
Wire-thin aerials poked up past their sleek pates, and other wires protruded at irregular intervals along the sides of the backpacks.
The Rebels broke for a well-deserved rest while trucks ran the burning and rubbled streets bringing in backpack flamethrowers for the troops and mix for the tanks.
He also carried two wicked Sheffield carving knives in lieu of daggers, and a red ripstop backpack.
There was a single black laptop bag over her shoulder and a black ripstop nylon backpack between her feet.
Will fired six EE rounds into the jungle then hurriedly detached his backpack and tossed it over.
With his backpack on the seat beside him, Oz drove back to the main village of Sigatoka as quickly as he dared.
A baby in a backpack, barely visible under a hat and mittens and a scarf and a snowsuit, caught his attention and he grinned up at it, wondering if it could even move.
To pass the time, Bill and Alex repaired Backpack 6, while Julie experimented with the Crock-Pot and bread machine and Peter cultured wastewater samples downstairs in the lab.