Definition of "rucksack" [rucksack]

• A knapsack. (noun)

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• "On a similar note, what do you call a rucksack that Air France’s finest have ripped the straps off?"
• "A backpack (also called rucksack, knapsack, packsack, pack, bookbag or Bergen) is, in its simplest form, a cloth sack carried on one's back and secured with two straps that go over the shoulders, but there can be exceptions."
• "Which makes it a particularly pliable medium for the subject of narrative's first principle: the forced march from A to B, with an ever-expanding rucksack, that is our lives."