Packer vs Wacker - What's the difference?

As a noun packer

is a person who plays football for the professional football team.

(wack).

(en noun)

A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation; as, a pork packer or a household goods packer.

When his back problems kept him from lifting furniture, his skill as a packer kept him employed.

(computing) A software program that compresses code or data.

* 2009 , Harlan Carvey, Windows Forensic Analysis DVD Toolkit

Many times, the malware authors will use packers and even encryption tools to disguise their software...

(label) An artificial penis worn by a drag king, transman, etc., inside the trousers.

(head)

(wack)

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(er)

Egregious

(From hip-hop slang) bad (as in not good), inauthentic, of an inferior quality, contemptible, lacking integrity, inauthentic, lame, or strange.

Every record they ever made was straight-up wack .

(slang) crazy, mad, insane

(en noun)

An eccentric; an oddball; a weirdo.

* wackjob * wacko