pack n.3
(drugs)1. a packet of heroin.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Web of the City (1983) 176: Let’s fall up to your pad and find a pack. I need a shot right now. | |
| Jones Men 104: He a big dope man [...] Why don’t you ask him for a pack, huh? | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Lowspeak. | |
| ONDCP Street Terms 16: Pack — Marijuana; heroin. |
2. a packet of pills.
| ‘Teen-age Hophead Jargon’ AS XXVII:1 28: PACK, n. 1. Package of capsules of drug. |
3. a packet of marijuana.
| ‘Teen-age Hophead Jargon’ AS XXVII:1 28: PACK, n. 2. A pack of marijuana cigarettes. | |
| ‘The Game’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 307: I gave you two for a cent pack. | |
| ONDCP Street Terms 16: Pack — Marijuana; heroin. | |
 | ‘Macaroni Time’ 🎵 So what I walk in court smelling like packs? | |
| ‘Money & Beef’ 🎵 And bro just went cunch / I bet he's tryna take the pack. |
4. a packet of cigarettes.
| World’s Toughest Prison 811: pack – A package of cigarettes. | |
| Farm (1968) 70: I got high on mace, 4 packs for a do. | |
| Pugilist at Rest 101: What kind of doctor has a two-pack-a-day cigarette habit? |
5. (US drugs) pack of crack cocaine vials.
| ‘The Buys’ Wire ser. 1 ep. 3 [TV script] ‘How much more to that pack?’ ‘50. 60.’ ‘Re-up’s late’. |
6. (UK drugs) a package of drugs worth £1000.
| ‘Anytime I Want’ 🎵 My brudda phoned me, he got a pack in / Said he got the yay from north west. | |
| ‘Live Corn’ 🎵 67 over everything / Break packs, double up, bring weapons in. | |
| ‘Day in the Life’ 🎵 You ain't never sat in the trap with a pack / Hear the doorbell ring and your heartbeat lag. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
see mule n. (4c)
1. an obsessive hoarder.
| [ | | Western Liberal (Lordsburg, NM) 4 Jan. 1/5: Nobody is going to starve in America, if the human squirrels and pack-rats don’t try to [...] smuggle all the food off to secret caches]. |
| (con. 1950) March to Glory (1962) 21: All right, ya pack rat. But remember—when we get the rations with chocolate in ’em, I get the chocolate . | |
| Blue Messiah 148: Pepe’s office was not the cramped, cluttered pack-rat’s nest. | |
| Brown’s Requiem 124: He was a notorious hobo and pack rat. | |
| Golden Orange (1991) 230: She wasn’t exactly a bag lady, more of a pack rat, always wearing layers of dresses. |
2. a hotel bellboy.
| NDAS. |
In phrases
(Aus.) a lavatory roll.
| Phrase Finder 9 Nov. 🌐 What I’ve found is that a ‘pack of poo tickets’ is a roll of toilet paper. Why ‘tickets?’ ‘Cause it’s funny and finishes the phrase with fricatives, but particularly due to the imagery of a slip of paper. I can only try to rationalize the association with disarray with an implied sense of used toilet paper [or a spent pack of poo tickets (soiled, wadded up, etc.)]. |
(drugs) a packet of marijuana cigarettes.
| Traffic In Narcotics 313: pack of rocks. A package of marihuana cigarettes. |
(orig. US black) one’s entire belongings: clothes, home and money.
| (con. 1940s–60s) Straight from the Fridge Dad 140: Pack, shack and stack All your belongings — your clothes, your home, and your money. |