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noun

• A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel

  Example: Don't throw the crisp packet on the floor!

• 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).

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

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

• A plastic bag.

  Example: 2012 August 6, Wendy Knowler, Plastic packets: who bags the profits?

• A manbulge.

• A large amount of money.

  Example: It'll cost a packet to fix this.

verb

• To make up into a packet or bundle.

• To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.

• To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.

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