Definition of "packets" []

• Plural form of packet. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of packet. (verb)

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• "The eight foundation cards, as they appear in the deal (whether they fall on the corner or on the side packets), are to be at once played in the space reserved for them, and on these may be played any suitable cards which in dealing fall _on either of the four corner packets_; but when a card (otherwise suitable) falls on either of the _side packets_, it may not be played unless the foundation to which it belongs happens to be the one _immediately adjoining the side packet on which that card fell in dealing_."
• "In the United Kingdom a number of varieties of loose Tea sold in packets from the 1940s to the 1970s contained tea cards."
• "This just goes to show that merely looking at the source address of the packets is a lousy way to track back the true source of an attack — yet that lousy practice seems to be standard, among people who like to blame an attack on the Chinese, or North Koreans, or Russians."