Meaning

• 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."

• A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack

• A multitude.

  "a pack of complaints"

• A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.

• A full set of playing cards

  "We were going to play cards, but nobody brought a pack."

• The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game.

  "cut the pack"

• A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.

• A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.

• A group of people associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.

  "a pack of thieves"

• A group of Cub Scouts.

• A shook of cask staves.

• A bundle of sheet iron plates for rolling simultaneously.

• A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.

  "The ship had to sail round the pack of ice."

• An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.

• : A loose, lewd, or worthless person.

• A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.

• The forwards in a rugby team (eight in Rugby Union, six in Rugby League) who with the opposing pack constitute the scrum.

  "The captain had to take a man out of the pack to replace the injured fullback."