packed
adj/pækt/
1
Put into a package.
- packed lunch
2
Filled with a large number or large quantity of something.
- packed with goodness
- […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
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- A packed schedule of 13 different inquiries ranged from parking on pavements to filling potholes, plus a hard-hitting examination of the Government's proposed Airports National Policy Statement and its recommendation to grant approval for a third runway to be built at Heathrow.2020 June 3, Lilian Greenwood talks to Paul Stephen, “Rail's 'underlying challenges' remain”, in Rail, page 33:
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Colloquial Filled to capacity with people.
- The bus was packed and I couldn't get on.
- On a steamy summer late afternoon the Luzhniki was once again packed. It is a vast space, with a roof that almost closes in on itself capturing the air like a superheated bubble.2018 June 17, Barney Ronay, “Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2019:
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- We picked up returning Millwall supporters at New Street, together with a couple of British Transport Police officers, and the train, an 11-car set, was now packed.2019 October, Chris Stokes, “Between the Lines”, in Modern Railways, page 97:
- Derived terms
- action-packed, badly packed kebab, close-packed, cram-packed, flatpacked, hardpacked, jam-packed, manpacked, nonpacked, packed cells, packed decimal, packed house, packed like sardines, packed lunch, packed meal, packed to the gills, packed to the rafters, pamper packed, prepacked, ram-packed, unpacked, vacuum-packed