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- A collection of six of something bundled together, especially six cans.
If you're thirsty, there's a six pack in the kitchen.
1980, Stephen King, The Mist:
Norton had made a neat, lawyerly check beside each of the items he and Billy had picked up—half a dozen or so, including the milk and a six-pack of Coke.
2005, Jim Jackson, Walking Together Forever: The Broad Street Bullies, Then and Now, page 120:
“We try to create the illusion that we just cruise up into the booth, crack open a six pack, and just schmooze while we watch the game,” Clement explains.
2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 74:
The table opposite me is occupied by a young couple with a table full of alcohol and snacks. In a role reversal, he is drinking Smirnoff Ice while she steadily demolishes a six-pack of lager!
- (bodybuilding) A highly developed set of abdominal muscles.
2005, Les Hewitt, The Power of Focus for College Students, page 133:
Are you going to tone your arms, build a six pack or tighten up the old rump?
2009, Jorge Cruise, Body at Home: A Simple Plan to Drop 10 Pounds, page 182:
Depending on your genetics, you might develop abs that have deep grooves, or you might get a great six pack yet your abs appear "flat" like Brad Pitt's in the movie Fight Club.
- 2010, Bill Geiger, "6-pack Abs in 9 Weeks", Reps! 17:106
- Developing a cut-up six-pack doesn't happen by accident unless you've got exceptional genetics […]
- (US, informal, law enforcement) A selection of six photographs, including one of a suspect, used for identification by a witness.
2008, John N. Ferdico, Henry F. Fradella, Christopher D. Totten, Criminal Procedure for the Criminal Justice Professional, 10th edition, page 792:
Officer Bahash then obtained a copy of Grant's photograph from the DMV and placed it in a six-person photograph array (also known as a “six-pack”) for possible identification by two earlier victims.
- (abdominal muscles): abs
set of six beverage cans
- Afrikaans: sespak
- Esperanto: sesopo
- Finnish: sikspäkki (fi) (slang); kuuden pakkaus
- French: pack de six m
- German: Sechserpack n, Sechserpackung (de) n, Sixpack (de) n or m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sekspakning m or f
- Nynorsk: sekspakning f or m
- Polish: sześciopak (pl) m
- Spanish: pack de seis m, paquete de seis m
- Swedish: sexpack (sv) n
highly developed set of abdominal muscles
- Afrikaans: blokkiesmaag
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Czech: (slang) pekáč buchet (cs) m inan
- Dutch: wasbord (nl) n, sixpack (nl) n
- Esperanto: ventromuskoloj, lavtabulaj ventromuskoloj
- Finnish: sikspäkki (fi), pyykkilautavatsa (fi)
- French: tablette de chocolat (fr) f, tablettes de chocolat (fr) f pl
- German: Waschbrettbauch (de) m, Sixpack (de) n or m
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: kockahas
- Italian: addominali a tartaruga m pl, tartaruga (it) f
- Japanese: シックスパック (shikkusu pakku)
- Korean: 왕짜 (wangjja)
- Persian: ششتکه
- Polish: sześciopak (pl) m, kaloryfer (pl) m
- Portuguese: tanquinho (pt)
- Romanian: pătrățele n pl
- Russian: квадра́тики (ru) m pl (kvadrátiki), кубики pl (kubiki) (informal)
- Spanish: tableta de chocolate f, tableta (es) f, caluga (Chile)
- Swedish: tvättbräda (sv) c, sexpack (sv)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: baklava (tr), baklavalar (tr) pl
US law enforcement: six photographs