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.
From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2023
“My father was the biggest pack rat there ever was,” he said.
From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2022
I know where everything is, but I’m a pack rat.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2020
He is a pack rat, and kept the original packaging.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 22, 2019
That side of meat had been a big one, but now there wasn’t enough meat left on the rind to interest a pack rat.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
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