Packer Explained

Packer or Packers may refer to:

Equipment

• Cultipacker, an agricultural roller
• Garwood Load Packer, an American waste collection vehicle
• Production packer, a standard component of the completion hardware of oil or gas wells used to isolate a section of a borehole

Movies

• The Gun Packer, a 1919 American short silent Western film
• Gun Packer (1938 film), a 1938 American Western film
• The Legend of Alfred Packer, a 1980 American biographical Western film
• The Star Packer, a 1934 American Western film

Newspapers

• Chicago Packer, a newspaper which catered to the interests of commercial growers, produce handlers, and poultry farmers
• The Packer, newspaper and website covering the fresh produce industry

Occupations

• A pack train operator (e.g. outfitter)
• A meat packer
• A household goods packer for moving, see moving company

People

• Packer (surname), includes a list of notable people with this surname
• Packer family, an Australian media and political family
• The Packers, an American soul group
• Todd Packer, fictional character in the American television series The Office

Places

• Packer House (disambiguation), several historic buildings in the United States
• Packer Park, a neighborhood in the South Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
• Packer Township, Pennsylvania, a township in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, U.S.
• Packer's Falls in Durham, New Hampshire, U.S., subject of New Hampshire historical marker no. 154
• Packers Camp, a rural locality in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia

Sports teams

• Anderson Packers, a former professional basketball team that played for Anderson, Indiana, in three different leagues, from 1946 to 1951
• Chicago Packers, the former name of the NBA team the Washington Wizards, when they played in Chicago, Illinois, for the 1961–62 NBA season
• Green Bay Packers, an American football team in Green Bay, Wisconsin
• Kansas City Packers, a Federal League baseball team from 1914 to 1915

Other uses

• Operation Packer, a military operation by the South African Defence Force in 1988
• Packer, a phallic object worn to simulate male genitals, see packing (phallus)
• Packer Collegiate Institute, in Brooklyn, New York City
• Packer concentration, market domination within the American meat-packing industry
• Packer's knot, a binding knot
• Packers sweep, an American football play
• Power-Packer, a Netherlands-based producer and distributor of electro-hydraulic motion control systems
• Runtime packer, a software component used to reduce executable sizes

See also

• • • Pack (disambiguation)
• Packe, a surname
• Packing (disambiguation)