pack rat 的定义
- Also called trade rat, wood rat . a large, bushy-tailed rodent, Neotoma cinerea, of North America, noted for carrying off small articles to store in its nest.
- Informal. a person who saves things that are not needed or used but that may have personal or other value.
- Informal. an old prospector or guide.
pack rat 近义词
someone that hoards objects
更多pack rat例句
- Luckily for history’s sake, Glenn was something of a pack rat, saving everything from elementary school drawings to class papers to his post-Mercury notes about space travel — all of it housed at the John Glenn Archives at Ohio State.
- “Change can be exciting,” Cuomo says to Richards as he helps her pack up her office.
- While some stray from the fold, most stay with the same pack their entire lives.
- And lo, Snowballs—underpants which can hold a flexible gel pack that you store in the freezer—was born.
- Plus the notion of the poor little guy surrounded by a rag-tag pack of true believers is an American favorite.
- New York City boasts the highest cost for cigarettes in the nation, with a pack ranging anywhere from $12 and up.
- Next morning Judy shouted that there was a rat in the nursery, and thus he forgot to tell her the wonderful news.
- He had repeated till he was thrice weary the statement that "the Cat lay on the Mat and the Rat came in."
- The party was made up of six men on horseback, two tame buffaloes, and a pack of immense dogs used to hunting.
- Growling horribly, the enraged brute seized poor Pearson and shook him as a terrier dog shakes a rat.
- There was no fight in his men; they ran like a pack of frightened coyotes at the first crack of a gun.