packet
noun
[ ˈpakɪt ]
• a paper or cardboard container, typically one in which goods are sold.
• "one man was fined £ 25 for dropping a crisp packet from his car window"
Similar:
pack,
carton,
box,
cardboard box,
container,
case,
package,
parcel,
padded bag,
Jiffy bag,
• a block of data transmitted across a network.
• a large sum of money.
• "a hectic social life could cost a packet"
Similar:
a fortune,
a king's ransom,
a small fortune,
millions,
billions,
lots/pots/heaps of money,
a mint,
a bundle,
a wad,
a pile,
a stack,
a heap,
a tidy sum,
a killing,
a pretty penny,
telephone numbers,
a bomb,
loadsamoney,
a shedload,
shedloads,
big bucks,
big money,
gazillions,
big bickies,
motser,
motza,
• a ship travelling at regular intervals between two ports, originally for the conveyance of mail.
packet
verb
• make up into or wrap up in a packet.
• "I grew my own sunflowers and packeted the seeds"
Origin:
mid 16th century: diminutive of pack1, perhaps from Anglo-Norman French; compare with Anglo-Latin paccettum .
