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• n  a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder

• A blue-turbaned, elderly Sikh with a flowing white beard kick-starts his scooter while balancing a small knapsack of shopping on the seat behind him.
• BACKPACK BULWARK A knapsack lined with a lightweight, bulletproof plate that students can use as a shield to protect against gunfire or knife blades.
• Backpacks get overloaded with school books, and your child can wind up with a hurt back if you skimp out with a cheap knapsack.

• backpack
• back pack
• packsack
• rucksack
• haversack

News & Articles

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• Police search for rape suspect in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
  The suspect is described as a Hispanic male, 25-35 years old, 5'9" tall with a medium build and dark hair. He was wearing a black tee short with an unknown design on the front, blue jeans and was carrying a knapsack.
  June 22, 2013 - WABC-TV New York

Quotes

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• Richard Schiff in USA Today
  There are very few personal treasures that you put in your knapsack to carry with you for the rest of your life, and he's one of those,Schiff said.
• Bruce Sundlun in Woonsocket Call
  At the reception, former Governor Sundlun recalled that Pell, after he was first elected to the Senate in 1960 but before he was sworn in, "put a knapsack on his back and climbed into the mountains of Cuba to talk to Fidel Castro," who had led a...
• Roy Romer in Kentucky.com
  Politicians "don't want to have that rock in their knapsack," said Roy Romer, a former Colorado governor and former Democratic Party general chairman. "I've seen the National Rifle Association guys sit in the front row of their town hall...