packer
Americannoun
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packers
plural
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a person or thing that packs.
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a person who engages in packing as an occupation or business, especially a person who packs food for market.
a fruit packer.
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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.
noun
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a person or company whose business is to pack goods, esp food
a meat packer
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a person or machine that packs
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of packer
First recorded in 1325–75; Middle English, see origin at pack 1, -er 1
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You might think I’m an expert packer with all of this globe-trotting, but I struggle like the rest of us, even with packing cubes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
"I was gobsmacked when Karl told me what he planned to do," says Angela, a retired packer at a snack food factory who is divorced from Keith.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2025
Shivani Vora is a New York City-based travel writer who considers herself a very savvy packer.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
Benefield, 31, is a picker and packer, moving parts from shelves in packets for later shipment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2023
The packer ground along at two miles an hour, and brought us into the next village south of Kurkurast long after nightfall.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
When herd sizes fall, cattle become more expensive for packers, often squeezing their margins even as retail beef prices rise.
From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026
And meatpacker JBS just paid $83.5 million to settle claims that the major packers have worked to suppress cattle prices and inflate profits.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 23, 2025
Like the men on the line, I pulled on white cotton gloves and, as the machine inched forward, began lifting watermelons from the ground, up onto the table above me where the packers waited.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2025
C. Meat packers are using “their position as middlemen to overcharge grocery stores and, ultimately, families.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025
We made the trip in power-sledges, I remember only parts of it; it was smooth and unhurried, with long halts waiting for packers to clear the road, and long nights spent at inns.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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