packets

noun

  1. 1

    A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel

    “Don't throw the crisp packet on the floor!”
  2. 2

    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).

  3. 3

    A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.

  4. 4

    A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).

  5. 5

    A plastic bag.

    “2012 August 6, Wendy Knowler, Plastic packets: who bags the profits?”
  6. 6

    A manbulge.

  7. 7

    A large amount of money.

    “It'll cost a packet to fix this.”

verb

  1. 1

    To make up into a packet or bundle.

  2. 2

    To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.

  3. 3

    To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.

  4. 4

    To subject to a denial-of-service attack in which a large number of data packets are sent.

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