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packrat

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Word definitions for packrat in dictionaries

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n. a collector of miscellaneous useless objects any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects [syn: pack rat , trade rat , bushytail woodrat , Neotoma cinerea ]

Usage examples of packrat.

Why else would the Soviets go to so much trouble, unless the soldiers, probably their top commandoes, were honing their deadly skills on the lives of the Packrats?

Cole had said earlier that the Russians used disguises, even befriended some of the Packrats before slaughtering them.

After all, those kids had spent years surviving in the wilderness of Valley Forge, fighting Hunters and other Packrats, stealing food and guns and whatever else they required.

Cole and many of the other Packrats had come from good homes where they usually had enough food and even enjoyed some luxuries.

The Packrats had lost it all when their parents had been executed or imprisoned by the Communists.

But in others respects, her former gang and the Packrats had a lot in common.

The Packrats, whether it was the Bobcats, the Claws, or any of the other gangs, by contrast had reduced all life to the primitive level of kill-or-be-killed.

With true English wit, Sir Nigel jested that one of these days he would wake up as a packrat, or some other such acquisitive vermin.