jet-pack

A form of jet pack — A piece of equipment that may be strapped to a person’s back and generate vertical thrust by a downward discharge of jet fluid, thereby rendering the person capable of flight.

Meanings

nounjet-pack (plural jet-packs)

plural jet-packs

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of jet pack.
verbjet-pack (third-person singular simple present jet-packs, present participle jet-packing, simple past and past participle jet-packed)

present singular third person jet-packs · participle present jet-packing · participle past jet-packed · past jet-packed

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of jetpack.

    He jet-packed over to the hole.

    2018, Ronald Morgan, Quest for Continuance: Varuna, Gatekeeper Press, →ISBN
    5 more examples

    He had “parked” the scout ship in orbit around the system’s outermost planet and jet-packed over to the larger vessel.

    2000, Michael McBain, The Vast, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 164

    “Yeah, and I jet-packed to work, before they fired me.”

    2013, Mick Herron, Dead Lions, Soho Crime, →ISBN

    Trump ordered the battle suits away and jet-packed to the floor.

    2014, Jeremiah Liend, The Book of Q, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 110

    In a single afternoon, we had jet-packed over every acre of rain forest, trekked across every beach, and even hiked up the volcano.

    2018, Dustin Brady, Trapped in a Video Game, Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN

    They raced through the loops and tunnels of a hover go-cart track, jet-packed over a volcano, suction-cup-climbed an office tower, and on and on, in an endless display of reckless fun.

    2021, S. G. Wilson, “TheME Park”, in Me vs. the Multiverse: Enough About Me, New York, N.Y.: Random House Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 85
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APA

jet-pack. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jet-pack

MLA

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Chicago

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