pack rat
Example Sentences
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“Very personal things. My roller skates from the 50s when I played street hockey in Brooklyn. I’m a pack rat and a collector. My restaurant was like my gallery, my museum.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2023
A known pack rat, Trump travels often, throws papers and news clips in cardboard boxes and sometimes instructs that boxes be brought along when he travels.
From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2023
My father, always a tyrant, had become a pack rat.
From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2022
He is a pack rat, and kept the original packaging.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 22, 2019
He was a regular pack rat, though smaller.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
