Packer

//ˈpækɚ// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation

    "He works as a pork packer."

  2. 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. 3
    a hiker who wears a backpack wordnet
  4. 4
    A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation; Clipping of meatpacker. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
  5. 5
    a wholesaler in the meat-packing business wordnet
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  1. 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 […]"

  2. 7
    a workman employed to pack things into containers wordnet
  3. 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
  4. 9
    An artificial penis or similar object worn by a drag king, trans man, etc., inside the trousers.
  5. 10
    An object inserted to hold a space open for the purpose of alignment; a spacer or shim. New-Zealand
  6. 11
    A kind of trunk for luggage. dated
  7. 12
    A packhorse. Australia
  8. 13
    A dustpan. Nigeria

Etymology

From Middle English pakker, pakkere, packare, equivalent to pack + -er.

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