packer
Americannoun
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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
Example Sentences
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Harstine, 70, a semiretired orchard packer, said he has noticed Hispanic men bicycling through the area.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
Dave Willis, a horse packer who lives on monument land in Oregon, has been fighting for creation and preservation of the Cascade-Siskiyou monument for decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2024
John saved money for his first solo Edinburgh show from a series of jobs, including as a teaching assistant and a bag packer in a coffee factory.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2024
Shivani Vora is a New York City-based travel writer who considers herself a very savvy packer.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
“What do you do?” the soldier curtly asks Pa. “I work as a packer in the shipping port.”
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
Under that scenario, Kunisch would expect price increases all along the food chain, starting with the prices paid for young cattle at livestock auctions to beef packers — the meat-processing companies that buy cattle.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
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
Delivery riders walk up to the counter, almost in tune with the packers.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026
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
I can see how it worked: The citrus packers walked from those lime green cement-block houses into that packing plant—that huge and magnificent structure.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
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