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pack rat

noun as in someone that hoards objects

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He was a regular pack rat, though smaller.

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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.”

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People close to Trump say he has long been a pack rat.

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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.

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“You can say this bird was a little bit of a pack rat,” Castro said as he sifted through acorns.

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