SIX-PACK Definition & Meaning

six-pack

[ siks-pak ]

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noun

six bottles or cans of a beverage, as beer or a soft drink, packaged and sold especially as a unit.
any package of six identical or closely related items, as seedling plants or small batteries, sold as a unit.

six-pack

noun

informal.
a package containing six units, esp six cans of beer
a set of highly developed abdominal muscles in a man
modifier arranged in standard sets of six
six-pack apartment blocks

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of six-pack¹

First recorded in 1950–55

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She added that she had drunk a pint of rum and a six-pack of beer that night.

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Hay blows from pickups and the guy behind the convenience store counter will smile kindly when you set down a six-pack.

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The formerly geeky Colin is freshly returned from a trip around the continent with six-pack abs and a journal full of lusty adventures.

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In many ways the lack of bulging muscles or six-pack has endeared him to the British public.

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The most visually inventive idea in the entire movie is the placement of the camera inside a refrigerator as Gutierrez sets a six-pack of beer down and his face remains perfectly framed by the bottles.

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