six-pack
Americannoun
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six bottles or cans of a beverage, as beer or a soft drink, packaged and sold especially as a unit.
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any package of six identical or closely related items, as seedling plants or small batteries, sold as a unit.
noun
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informal a package containing six units, esp six cans of beer
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a set of highly developed abdominal muscles in a man
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(modifier) arranged in standard sets of six
six-pack apartment blocks
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of six-pack
First recorded in 1950–55
Example Sentences
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"Today the artists... give them six-pack abs and muscles."
From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026
Durov, who almost always wears black—except when posing for shirtless photos with six-pack abs—espouses a libertarian view of the world, rejecting alignment with states and centralized power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
There is, especially this time of year, no shortage of attractive people with six-pack abs who will happily tell you the best way to improve your well-being.
From Slate ● Jan. 1, 2025
In many ways the lack of bulging muscles or six-pack has endeared him to the British public.
From BBC ● May 16, 2024
So that is how it ended for me and Katz—with a six-pack of cream soda in Milo, Maine.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
Original glazed, chocolate-iced with rainbow sprinkles, and raspberry-filled doughnuts will be sold individually and in six-packs in the restaurant and drive-thru.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
Will we all receive the six-packs of our dreams?
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2022
Starting Monday, Sept. 20, the late-night bakery chain will provide teachers free six-packs in honor of the back-to-school season, a spokesperson for Insomnia Cookies told Fox News.
From Fox News ● Sep. 19, 2021
In the first four days, 1,900 six-packs of Club World class bread baskets were snapped up.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2020
Searching the lower cabinets, he found two six-packs of bottled water, which he put into the bottom of the shopping cart.
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
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