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Origin of ice pack

First recorded in 1850–55

Words nearby ice pack

ice-minus, ice needle, ice needles, Iceni, ice-out, ice pack, ice pancake, ice pellets, ice pick, ice plant, ice point

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How to use ice pack in a sentence

So I set aside my post-op checklist, left unopened boxes of breast pillows and ice packs and stretch pants and button-down shirts stacked in the corner of my bedroom, a memorial to a time when plans meant something.
How Ice Cream Became My Own Personal Act of Resistance|Taylor Harris|November 10, 2021|Time
There may also have been an insulated lunch bag stuffed with an ice pack, organic sauerkraut, ground flax seed, and wheatgrass powder – my attempt to balance the lack of plant-based food I expected to find in rural Arkansas.
Bump This State to the Top of Your Post-Pandemic Wishlist|Cassandra Brooklyn|August 26, 2021|The Daily Beast
An ice pack will ensure the contents of the bag remain nicely chilled.
Is it noon yet? The best lunch box, bento boxes, lunch bags for adults|Florie Korani|August 12, 2021|Popular-Science
Even where the sea is covered with floating ice, there are perceptible currents, and the ice-pack is never at rest.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893|Various

Every few steps some man would sink into the ice-pack up to his waist and his legs would dangle in slush without finding bottom.
Historic Adventures|Rupert S. Holland
He ran down to the ice edge, and gazed eagerly seaward, but nowhere could he see the ice pack.
Bobby of the Labrador|Dillon Wallace
In the east the sun was just rising, and the snow of the ice pack sparkled and glittered with wondrous beauty.
Bobby of the Labrador|Dillon Wallace
In an ice-pack of big hummocks and narrow lanes we made good progress all the summer.
The Purple Cloud|M.P. Shiel

British Dictionary definitions for ice pack

ice pack

noun

a bag or folded cloth containing ice, applied to a part of the body, esp the head, to cool, reduce swelling, etc

another name for pack ice

a sachet containing a gel that can be frozen or heated and that retains its temperature for an extended period of time, used esp in cool bags

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ice pack

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