pack lunch

pack lunch (plural pack lunches)

1. Alternative form of packed lunch.
   • 1974, Shaun Herron, The Bird in Last Year’s Nest, New York, N.Y.: M. Evans and Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 88:

     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.

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

     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?

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

     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.