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backpacker

noun

Etymology

From backpack + -er.

  1. inherited from *pakkô✻ — “bundle, pack”
  2. inherited from *pakkō✻
  3. derived from pak
  4. inherited from *pæcca✻
  5. inherited from pak
  6. formed as backpack — “back + pack”
  7. formed as backpacker — “backpack + -er”

Definitions

  1. A traveler whose luggage consists of a backpack

    A traveler whose luggage consists of a backpack; especially, such a traveler who uses hostels, public transport, and other inexpensive services.

    • Among the ah bengs and ah lians, the mats and the minahs, the young expats and the backpackers, he stood out like a dozen guys on a male-only dance floor singing Dancing Queen (I'll never forgive Blur for ruining my 21st birthday).

  2. A hostel offering accommodation for such people.

    • We hardly ever stayed in backpackers as it was approximately double the cost of pitching a tent in a caravan park or nature reserve.

  3. A fan or performer of backpack rap.

    • Blacks and Latinos were more likely to be gangsta rappers than backpackers.
    • To him the white backpackers are abject, 'safari wiggers' who threaten to undo all his careful work at 'passing' in this culture. With their earnestness and clumsy naiveté they betray the scandalous truth of his posturing.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for backpacker. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA