HARDPACK

Etymology

Noun

hardpack (countable and uncountable, plural hardpacks)

(uncountable) A material (such as dirt, gravel, or snow) compressed into a hard, smooth surface for roads etc.

(countable) A hard package, especially of cigarettes.

Antonyms

• (package): softpack

Source: Wiktionary



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11 June 2025

LIGHT

(adjective) having relatively few calories; “diet cola”; “light (or lite) beer”; “lite (or light) mayonnaise”; “a low-cal diet”


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Coffee Trivia

Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.

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