pack lunch

plural pack lunches

1. alternativeAlternative form of packed lunch.

   While he crouches on the hard clay of a dry rivercourse to eat his pack lunch, he thinks: If I had no other way to describe what I saw in the crevasse?

   1995, Thomas Wharton, “Nunatak”, in Icefields, Edmonton, Alta.: NeWest Press, →ISBN, page 145

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   There was nothing about that to merit anyone’s attention: all the young people met at the Omega corner on Sunday mornings, and the buses came from six-thirty on and took them to the mountains to walk, and play games and talk, and eat their pack lunches.

   1974, Shaun Herron, The Bird in Last Year’s Nest, New York, N.Y.: M. Evans and Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 88

   He swam a few strokes and then sat on a rock to dry out. A gentle breeze cooled his skin, burning in the sun. While he ate his pack lunch, he looked around.

   2017, Peter Stamm, translated by Michael Hofmann, To the Back of Beyond, New York, N.Y.: Other Press, →ISBN, page 114