Meanings
plural backsacks
- A backpack.
The cyborg slung a backsack over his shoulder and exited the cockpit.
2025, Josh Coker, Past The Fringe, page 271 more example
A moment passed, then a bent old man labouring unsteadily under a backsack shuffled slowly through the afternoon gloom toward the Pawn shop's front entrance.
2012, Richard J. Sutcliffe, The Builder - slangvulgarThe back of the testicles.
Origin
Compound of back + sack, possibly influenced by backpack.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
backsack. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/backsack
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