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- noun Alternative spelling of
pack rat .
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Examples
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I used to be a digital pack-rat and it took me a long time to realize how much time I was wasting doing nothing more than collecting content I'd never use.
Boxee Founder Avner Ronen On The Future Of Your Living Room | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Mr. Kinoy attributed the pack-rat retention of the 16mm reels to his years working on advertisements.
Chronicle of War, Evidence of Crime Nicolas Rapold 2011
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He was a pack-rat, an eccentric, a recluse, a collector, an artist, a dreamer, a devoted recycler and a fanatic tinkerer.
Of Shoes And Ships And Sealing Wax And Hoarding Stuff And Things | Her Bad Mother 2009
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Where "50/50" comes delightfully alive is in its ever more romantic encounters between Adam, who desperately needs a special someone to hold him together, and Katherine, who, given her pack-rat predilections and her pitiful inexperience, seems the least likely of Seattle's therapists to do so.
'50/50': Cheerful Illness Tale, With Relapses Joe Morgenstern 2011
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Self proclaimed pack-rat and the design mastermind behind the eco-fashion line Study Tara St. James knows how to make upcycling look good.
Win this Gorgeous Upcycled Zipper Necklace and Cuff Set (Worth $70!) | Inhabitat 2010
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Self proclaimed pack-rat and the design mastermind behind the eco-fashion line Study Tara St. James knows how to make upcycling look good.
GIVEAWAY: Upcycled Zipper Necklace and Cuff Set Worth $70! | Inhabitat 2010
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One day, Banksy calls him on his bluff, asking when the odd and clumsy self-described filmmaker is finally going to cobble together a documentary film (out of the footage he's hoarded in crates like a pack-rat).
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One day, Banksy calls him on his bluff, asking when the odd and clumsy self-described filmmaker is finally going to cobble together a documentary film (out of the footage he's hoarded in crates like a pack-rat).
Banksy's Film Exit Through the Gift Shop : A Street Art Morality Play Without Morals 2010
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One day, Banksy calls him on his bluff, asking when the odd and clumsy self-described filmmaker is finally going to cobble together a documentary film out of the footage he's hoarded in crates like a pack-rat.
Shana Ting Lipton: Banksy's Film Exit Through the Gift Shop : A Street Art Morality Play Without Morals Shana Ting Lipton 2010
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The right course is probably somewhere between being a pack-rat and a compulsive neat freak.
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