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Packsack

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1851, OED Evaluation: North American

A bag or other container used to transport a bundle of goods; a rucksack.

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Um, well I refer to it a-- as a backpack ... Um, most of the people in my generation would usually call it that too. There are a few people that would call it a back-sack, or-something. Interviewer: A pack-sack? Speaker: Or yes, pack-sack right? yes I have heard back-sack. It's kind of funny.
A bag or other container used to transport a bundle of goods; a rucksack.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: They will stalk a person for food. Interviewer: Oh wow. Speaker: Yeah. You're the food. Interviewer: Wow. Speaker: Not your packsack. You.
Knapsack
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Okay bye. Interviewer: Bye. Speaker: Nice packsack. I ended up going out with Ron-Schaffer, he was about Robert's age, he was an older one, really nice guy but didn't work, went back to my old boyfriend and then- but he was the worst.
Knapsack
ExampleMeaning
Yeah, I didn't have a packsack or- or a knapsack or a- I had a gym-bag. So it was a gym-bag.
Knapsack
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: See I grew up with pack-sack. Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: All- all my friends in (inc) called it a pack-sack. And when you go down to Southern Ontario you say pack-sack they look at you like "What the hell is that?" Speaker: Well I- I think that's what I call it is a pack-sack. But then because to me back-pack is a back-pack for going packing you-know? It's not you-know something.
A bag or other container used to transport a bundle of goods; a rucksack.