Usually means: Portable bag carried on back.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. backpack: Merriam-Webster
  2. backpack: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. backpack: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. backpack: Collins English Dictionary
  5. backpack: Vocabulary.com
  6. Backpack, backpack: Wordnik
  7. backpack: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. backpack: Wiktionary
  9. backpack: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. backpack: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. backpack: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. backpack: Dictionary.com
  13. backpack: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Backpack: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. backpack: Rhymezone
  16. backpack: FreeDictionary.org
  17. backpack: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. backpack: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. backpack: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  20. backpack: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. backpack: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. backpack: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Backpack: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See backpacked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  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 hiking, or on a student's back when carrying books.
noun:  A similarly placed item containing a parachute or other life-support equipment.
verb:  (intransitive) To hike and camp overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.
verb:  (intransitive) To engage in low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodation.
verb:  (transitive, rare) To place or carry (an item or items) in a backpack.

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