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
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
Shivani Vora is a New York City-based travel writer who considers herself a very savvy packer.
From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2024
The U.S. meat packer, which had bumped up meat prices last year, reported a 3% drop in quarterly net sales to $13.14 billion, below analysts’ expectations of $13.59 billion in Refinitiv data.
From Reuters • Aug. 7, 2023
“My ma died when I was born, and being my old man was a government packer in the mountains, and no cows around most of the time, why he just gave me mostly mare’s milk.”
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
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