pack rat AmE informal

It is not that all these people are pack rats, they say.

For years I complained about my father, the pack rat.

There's dust over everything, and pack rats have been in there.

It may well be that the future belongs to the pack rats.

Or at least the incipient life of a pack rat.

I've become a pack rat in my own right.

Or had the last commander of the garrison before the war simply been part pack rat?

As you can see, I came dressed like an old pack rat."

And she understands how trading can benefit pack rats like herself.

At 9:30, he helps a couple of pack rats clean up their garage.

I figure Russell was a pack rat, couldn't let go of stuff.

This time the Pack Rat would not be shut out.

This pack rat is 8.5 to 15 inches long.

"Out scavenging with the rest of the pack rats," he said.

But last summer he found a dead pack rat in the backyard and notified the authorities.

You find out who all the pack rats are."

She is an accomplished pack rat, the kind of friend who might well borrow your attic.

And the Pack Rat knew that someone was in the apartment with him.

In English, the words "pack rat" and hoarder are used for such people.

"I'm a pack rat," he warned as we entered the dining room just to the right of the front door.

She used to sleep with a ski pole to scare the pack rats away.

Queen of the pack rats she might become eventually, but there was an apprenticeship period first.

The Pack Rat put his hands on the machine, nodded.

The office inside was cluttered in a fashion known only to old French lawyers and pack rats.

He kept his woodpile off the ground so that pack rats could not nest there.