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.

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.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Osvaldo	-	Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Lilla	LEEL-law	Hungarian
Theotimus	-	Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Hankin	-	Medieval English
Gwendolen	GWEN-də-lin (English)	Welsh
Lefteris	-	Greek