Date:  Tue, 7 May 1996 23:24:20 EST

From:  Boyd Davis <FEN00BHD[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UNCCVM.UNCC.EDU>

Subject: packy?



What does 'packy' mean in this context?



Late that next afternoon, I found Det. Lt. Royce Whitlock of the state police

where he usually went for lunch on his days off: downstairs in the basement

of a thriving cement-block mini-mall in Lynnfield--convenience store selling

milk, cigarettes, potato chips, and lottery scratch cards and keno tickets

that kept a bunch of older guys in satin jackets rapt in front of a TV

screen; two-chair barber shop; sewing supplies store; packy; and a take-out

sandwich shop.

 --George V. Higgins, Sandra Nichols Found Dead. New York: Henry Holt,1996