six-pack

• sixpack, six pack

six-pack (plural six-packs)

1. A collection of six of something bundled together, especially six cans.

   If you're thirsty, there's a six pack in the kitchen.

   • 1980, Stephen King, The Mist:

     Norton had made a neat, lawyerly check beside each of the items he and Billy had picked up—half a dozen or so, including the milk and a six-pack of Coke.

   • 2005, Jim Jackson, Walking Together Forever: The Broad Street Bullies, Then and Now, page 120:

     “We try to create the illusion that we just cruise up into the booth, crack open a six pack, and just schmooze while we watch the game,” Clement explains.

   • 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 74:

     The table opposite me is occupied by a young couple with a table full of alcohol and snacks. In a role reversal, he is drinking Smirnoff Ice while she steadily demolishes a six-pack of lager!

2. (bodybuilding) A highly developed set of abdominal muscles.
   • 2005, Les Hewitt, The Power of Focus for College Students, page 133:

     Are you going to tone your arms, build a six pack or tighten up the old rump?

   • 2009, Jorge Cruise, Body at Home: A Simple Plan to Drop 10 Pounds, page 182:

     Depending on your genetics, you might develop abs that have deep grooves, or you might get a great six pack yet your abs appear "flat" like Brad Pitt's in the movie Fight Club.

   • 2010, Bill Geiger, "6-pack Abs in 9 Weeks", Reps! 17:106

     Developing a cut-up six-pack doesn't happen by accident unless you've got exceptional genetics […]

3. (US, informal, law enforcement) A selection of six photographs, including one of a suspect, used for identification by a witness.
   • 2008, John N. Ferdico; Henry F. Fradella; Christopher D. Totten, Criminal Procedure for the Criminal Justice Professional, 10th edition, page 792:

     Officer Bahash then obtained a copy of Grant's photograph from the DMV and placed it in a six-person photograph array (also known as a “six-pack”) for possible identification by two earlier victims.

• (abdominal muscles): abs

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