pack rat 
noun
1 another term for woodrat.And my friend Julio Betancourt who was near an Anasazi ruin and happened to see a pack rat midden whose dating he knew nothing about....
- A) There are some 40 known rattler-proof North American mammals, including species of pack rats, ground squirrels, pocket mice, and other snakebite-size critters.
- Mice in near biblical plague numbers crowd my abode, also pack rats and kangaroo rats.
2North American derogatory A person who hoards things.Though he admits that he's a pack rat, Caouette points out 160 hours of material isn't so much when collected over a span of 20 years....
- ‘Great, I'm moving in with a pack rat,’ she groaned jokingly.
- Mercy turned around to go to her room and laughed saying, ‘I am going to become a pack rat if I am not careful.’
- overharvest
- overharvesting
- over-haste
- overhastened
- overhastily
- over-hastiness
- overhasty
- overhaul
- overhauler
- Overhauser effect
- overhead
- overhead camshaft
- overhead locker
- overhead projector
- overhead transparency
- overhead valve
- overheap
- overhear
- overhearer
- overheat
- over-heaviness
- over-heavy
- overheight
- over-heighten
- over-high