packet

Related to packet: packet switching, Packet loss, Packet sniffer

cop a packet

To be seriously injured. This phrase originated in the military. I got sent home after copping a packet during my tour of duty.
See also: cop, packet

earn a packet

To earn a very large amount of money, especially by doing something very successfully. We'll earn a packet if we can manage to secure a trading partner in China. I hear Sarah is earning a packet with sales from her latest novel.
See also: earn, packet

lose a packet

To lose a very large amount of money, especially all at the same time. The sudden plunge in the company's stock price meant investors around the world have lost a packet. I vowed never to go into a casino again after losing a packet at the slot machines last Saturday.
See also: lose, packet

make a packet

To make a very large amount of money, especially by doing something very successfully. We'll make a packet if we can manage to secure a trading partner in China. I hear Sarah is making a packet with sales from her latest novel.
See also: make, packet

pay packet

1. Literally, an envelope or small parcel containing an employee's earnings. Primarily heard in UK. Back when I started working here, before online banking and direct debit, everyone got their pay packet put in their hand at the end of each week.
2. By extension, a person's salary or rate of pay from an employer. Primarily heard in UK. The public outcry has been immense over revelations of the charity CEO's outrageous annual pay packet.
See also: packet, pay

spend a packet

To spend a very large amount of money, especially all at the same time. We spent a packet securing our partnership with the Chinese manufacturers. I hear Sarah is spending a packet to self-publish her novel.
See also: packet, spend
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

cop a packet

to become badly injured; to be wounded severely. (Originally military.) My uncle copped a packet in Normandy. If you want to cop a packet or worse, just stand up in that shallow trench, son.
See also: cop, packet
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

cop a packet

1 be killed, especially in battle. 2 contract a venereal disease. informal euphemistic
See also: cop, packet
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

make, lose, spend, etc. a ˈpacket

(informal) make, etc. a large amount of money: He went to the USA and made a packet in office property. We spent a packet on our weekend away — everything was so expensive.
See also: packet
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • cop a packet
  • spend a packet
  • make a packet
  • make, lose, spend, etc. a packet
  • cop onto
  • cop onto (something)
  • cop onto something
  • go doolally
  • wrap
  • cop it
References in periodicals archive
The traditional packet scheduling algorithm used in most systems is First-In-First-Out (FIFO), which places all packets into a single queue and processes them in the same order in which they are received.
Modeling Improved Low Latency Queueing Scheduling Scheme for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Deep packet inspection is a solution that enables the users to look into the computer network packet beyond the basic header information.
Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) Market 2019-2023: Key Findings, Regional Study, Business Trends, Profits, Global Segments and Future Prospects
Johor KPDNHEP director Mohd Hairul Anuar Bohro said this followed a state-wide crackdown on outlets selling snack food after it received feedback that the halal logo and product information on the candy packets could be dubious.
Ministry enforcement team confiscates 'ghost smoke' candy from wholesaler in Masai
In our previous research, we proposed a multipath routing network coding algorithm in WSN (NC-WSN) [7], which can improve the throughput of data packet and the reliability of data packet transmission, and achieve the load balancing ability of data packet transmission better.
Network Coding-based Maximum Lifetime Algorithm for Sliding Window in WSNs
Delay is the time required for a packet to cross the network.
3 NETWORK TESTS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING VOIP SYSTEMS
And a 900g packet of Albert Bartlett rooster homestyle frozen chips is 30cm, yet the potatoes fill only 11cm.
Cadbury's airy milk; Shoppers hit by oversized pack scandal
The basic idea of these protocols is that a sender has to capture the channel before sending out a packet. Reservation-based MAC protocols such as slotted FAMA [9] have been proved to have a better performance with heavier traffic loads.
PC-MAC: A Prescheduling and Collision-Avoided MAC Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks
It is the interface between the network and the switch and is responsible for packet receiving and sending.
FAS: Using FPGA to Accelerate and Secure SDN Software Switches
LAHORE -- The agriculture department has so far distributed 800,000 seed packets of vegetables to people under the Kitchen Gardening Programme.
800,000 seed packets distributed under Kitchen Gardening Programme
Reactive protocols decide the proper route only when essential, that is, when a packet needs to be forwarded.
Performance analysis of routing protocols for MANET using NS2 simulator
ISLAMABAD -- After getting confirmation from Iran that 10-stick packets of cigarettes were not manufactured there, the Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) has decided to seek help from the Ministry of Information Technology to stop online sale of such packets which are banned in Pakistan.
IT ministry's help sought to stop online sale of 10-stick cigarette packets
The authority has removed 3,753 packets of six frozen meat products manufacturing companies from the market over failure to meet the food safety standards.
PFA barred sale of unhygienic frozen meat
It said the PFA teams removed 2,915 packets of K and Ns, 544 packets of Seasons, 127 packets of Mann-o-Salwa, 164 packets of Hamza Foods, 100 packets of Neat Foods and three packets of Sabroso.
PFA barred sale of unhygienic frozen meat
ROYAL Mail has had to ask people not to post empty Walkers crisp packets in post boxes because they are taking too long to sort through.
Don't post crisp packets appeal from Royal Mail