backpack ((n.))†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a pack carried on one's back.

Quotations

1955

Opposite the door was a long table fixed to the wall . . . a rack with various tools and a back-pack water bag with syringes to dowse small fires.

1964

Reg shook off his backpack.