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pack drill

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noun

  1. a military punishment by which the offender is made to march about carrying a full pack of equipment

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Photograph: Channel 5 No names, no pack drill and all that.

From The Guardian • Feb. 26, 2013

In part, it was because certain finance ministers – no names, no pack drill – tried a course of cold turkey too soon.

From The Guardian • Feb. 24, 2013

I fought and chaffed and drank and drilled and marched, and went 'up tahn' with him, and did pack drill, and had C.B. with him.

From My Contemporaries In Fiction by Murray, David Christie

I hoped in my heart that the colonel would give the fellow eight hours' pack drill.

From Captain Macklin by Davis, Richard Harding

Tommy takes great care of the above, because it means extra pack drill to come on parade unshaven.

From Over the Top by Empey, Arthur Guy

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