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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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
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
But here, Fishburne plays a truck packer for The New York Daily News, a Hurricane Katrina survivor and a homeless man who washes cars, among others.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
Benefield, 31, is a picker and packer, moving parts from shelves in packets for later shipment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2023
Mia was a fast packer, good at squeezing an improbably large number of things into a tight space.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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
C. Meat packers are using “their position as middlemen to overcharge grocery stores and, ultimately, families.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025
You’ll start at the Swift Creek Trailhead, taking good care not to park in “stock parking” areas, where mule packers and horse riders store their trailers during their treks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2025
The men voted to submit demands for increased wages and benefits to the packers on Saturday, July 26, and, barring a satisfactory response, to go out on strike on July 28.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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