ice pack

noun

|Updated on: 10 Jul 2018

Definition of ice pack

1 : an expanse of pack ice

2 : a bag or other container filled with frozen material (such as crushed ice) and applied to a body part (as to relieve pain or reduce swelling)

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Examples of ice pack in a Sentence

He had an ice pack on his sore elbow.

Recent Examples of ice pack from the Web

Bring a cooler with an ice pack for transport home.

— bonnie s. benwick, charlotteobserver, "What you should know about buying frozen fish," 3 July 2018
Refrigerate everything, and then pack in coolers with ice packs.

— jeanmarie brownson, chicagotribune.com, "Pack up a picnic of Spanish tapas to feed a crowd," 3 July 2018
Mbandaka, a city of perhaps 1.3 million where four cases have emerged, has two more freezers, a 300-liter one for ice packs and a 600-liter one for vaccine.

— adam rogers, WIRED, "The Wild Logistical Ride of the Ebola Vaccine's High-Tech Thermos," 29 May 2018
When Dan goes out for a walk to clear his head, Roseanne gets her ice pack and puts it on her knee.

— tyler mccarthy, Fox News, "'Roseanne' recap: drug addiction rocks the Conner household," 16 May 2018
The conservancy said a fourth thresher shark was found in an ice pack off Wellfleet on New Year’s Eve.

— dialynn dwyer, BostonGlobe.com, "Why have frozen sharks been washing up on the Cape?," 4 Jan. 2018
The disappearing Arctic ice pack was once a frozen highway used by early-20th-century explorers searching for the elusive North Pole.

— ashley shelby, New York Times, "To the Poles — Before They Started Melting," 15 June 2018
Nurses covered him in ice packs to try to keep his temperature down.

— john tozzi, latimes.com, "Air ambulances, backed by private equity firms, leave patients with $45,000 bills," 11 June 2018
There’s the cardboard and the ice packs, and then all the plastic bags, each holding just a few sprigs of lemongrass or thyme.

— janelle nanos, BostonGlobe.com, "Purple Carrot digs in on ecological packaging," 11 June 2018

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First Known Use of ice pack

1835

in the meaning defined at sense 1

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ICE PACK Defined for English Language Learners

ice pack

noun

Definition of ice pack for English Language Learners

: a container or bag filled with ice that is used to cool part of your body
: a large area of ice on the ocean formed from pieces and sheets of ice that have been pushed together by wind and waves