six-pack

[ siks-pak ]

noun

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

six-pack

noun

1. informal.
   a package containing six units, esp six cans of beer
2. a set of highly developed abdominal muscles in a man
3. modifier arranged in standard sets of six

   six-pack apartment blocks

Word History and Origins

Origin of six-pack¹

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Salon

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

From BBC

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.

From Los Angeles Times

Yeah, you had that surgery, that six-pack gone / That’s why you wearing that funny s— at your show,” Ross raps.

From Los Angeles Times