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- (noun): A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel
- (noun): Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. Packet boat, ship, vessel (Wikipedia).
- (noun): A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
- (noun): A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).
- (noun): A plastic bag.
- (noun): A manbulge.
- (noun): A large amount of money.
- (verb): To make up into a packet or bundle.
- (verb): To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
- (verb): To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
- (verb): To subject to a denial-of-service attack in which a large number of data packets are sent.
- Don't throw the crisp packet on the floor!
- 2012 August 6, Wendy Knowler, Plastic packets: who bags the profits?
- It'll cost a packet to fix this.