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

“The guy would drink whole jugs of vodka and cranberry,” Osbourne tells us, “and while he was sitting there, waiting for ’em to be made, he’d get through a six-pack of beer.

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I’m sorry to say that the six-pack Valentine’s gift of engine oil for my hemorrhaging VW didn’t quite make the cut.

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Off to the side of the protesters, David Elliott stood watching the scene with a beer in one hand and a small six-pack cooler in the other.

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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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