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pack rat
noun
1.
Also called trade rat. a large, bushy-tailed rodent, Neotoma cinerea, of North America, noted for carrying off small articles to store in its nest.
2.
Informal.
a.
a person who collects, saves, or hoards useless small items.
b.
an old prospector or guide.
Origin:
1840–50
1840–50
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Pack rat
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| pack rat | |
| —n | |
| Also called: wood rat any rat of the genus Neotoma, of W North America, having a long tail that is furry in some species: family Cricetidae | |
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