Usually means: Collector of unnecessary items, hoarder.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word pack rat:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. pack rat: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pack rat: Merriam-Webster
  3. pack rat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pack rat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pack rat: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pack rat: Vocabulary.com
  7. pack-rat: Wordnik
  8. pack-rat, pack rat: Wiktionary
  9. pack rat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. pack rat: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. pack-rat, pack rat: Dictionary.com
  12. pack-rat: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Pack rat (disambiguation), Pack rat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. pack rat: Rhymezone
  15. pack rat: FreeDictionary.org
  16. pack rat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. pack rat: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pack rat: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pack rat: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pack rat: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pack rat)

noun:  Any of several small North American rodents, of the genus Neotoma, that have bushy tails.
noun:  One who collects or hoards, especially unnecessary objects.

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