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Packer
//ˈpækɚ// noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation
"He works as a pork packer."
- 2 A person who plays football for the Green Bay Packers professional football team.
"Either Bart Starr or Brett Favre was the greatest Packer of all time."
- 3 a hiker who wears a backpack wordnet
- 4 A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation; Clipping of meatpacker. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
- 5 a wholesaler in the meat-packing business wordnet
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- 6 A software program that compresses code or data.
"Many times, the malware authors will use packers and even encryption tools to disguise their software […]"
- 7 a workman employed to pack things into containers wordnet
- 8 A ring of packing or a special device to render gastight and watertight the space between the tubing and bore of an oil well. US
- 9 An artificial penis or similar object worn by a drag king, trans man, etc., inside the trousers.
- 10 An object inserted to hold a space open for the purpose of alignment; a spacer or shim. New-Zealand
- 11 A kind of trunk for luggage. dated
- 12 A packhorse. Australia
- 13 A dustpan. Nigeria
Etymology
From Middle English pakker, pakkere, packare, equivalent to pack + -er.
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