PACK ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pack on mean? 

• PACK ON (verb)
  The verb PACK ON has 1 sense:

1. gain (weight)

  Familiarity information: PACK ON used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PACK ON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gain (weight)

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Context example:

He packed on two pounds over the summer

Hypernyms (to "pack on" is one way to...):

gain; put on (increase (one's body weight))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

He placed his pack on the ground and stalked them as a cat stalks a sparrow.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

We were coming out of the ice-pack on our way home, with head winds and a week’s southerly gale, when we picked up a little craft that had been blown north. There was one man on her—a landsman.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He picked it up hastily with a defiant glance about him, as though the desolation were trying to rob him of it; and when he rose to his feet to stagger on into the day, it was included in the pack on his back.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)