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packer

[ pak-er ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that packs.
  2. a person who engages in packing as an occupation or business, especially a person who packs food for market:

    a fruit packer.

  3. a penile prosthesis or other object of phallic shape placed in the crotch of one's clothing to create a bulge, often used by gender-diverse people as part of their gender expression:

    My new packer is made of silicon.



packer

/ ˈpækə /

noun

  1. a person or company whose business is to pack goods, esp food

    a meat packer

  2. a person or machine that packs


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Word History and Origins

Origin of packer1

First recorded in 1325–75; Middle English, pack 1, -er 1

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Example Sentences

Big beef packers argue that these AMAs, such as forward-looking contracts, offer ranchers peace of mind because they help them develop long-term relationships with buyers.

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The hip belt and backpack mechanism take up space inside the bag but you can still fit enough gear and clothing for an extended trip if you are a light packer.

In the early Forest Service, our major artist was the packer, as it usually has been in worlds where there are no roads.

Finicky packers want to predict the weather and their entire future, but what I miss about packing is accepting an unknowable fate.

Watching my father who worked as a packer in an assembly line.

From Time

Freshway Foods A fresh produce processor and packer, Freshway Logistics is a for-hire carrier of mainly refrigerated products.

Another, founded by Katie Packer Gage herself, WWP Strategies, pulled in $5.5 million that election.

In the second camp were liberal interventionists like Thomas Friedman, George Packer, and Samantha Power.

The unwound are some citizens George Packer found and spent time with, people who symbolize this American nightmare.

The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

The "wrappers" should be cased by themselves and "the seconds" and "fillers" together or separate at the option of the packer.

“I dare say that looked very much like a gratuitous impertinence from—the packer,” he observed.

Ida frowned, and remembered the trail of blood on the white stones when the packer had started.

They knew absolutely nothing of the diamond hitch, which every up-to-date packer uses, and Phil would tolerate no other.

Looking over her head, Paul saw the pork-packer glance quickly at him, his face a complete study in astonishment.

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