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fish-wrap

fish-wrap adjective: of low quality or value. Also the alternative form of fish wrap.

Adjective

fish-wrap

  1. (figuratively, uncommon) Of low quality or value.
    • We know "what it means to be Carolina", and we can only hope that Barnett learns before he writes another fish-wrap column.November 26, 2000, Paul Gardner, “From The Bleachers”, in Sunday News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina), page C2

Also used as

fish-wrap is also the alternative form of fish wrap.

Forms of fish-wrap

pluralfish-wraps

Questions about fish-wrap

What does fish-wrap mean?
Fish-wrap means of low quality or value.
What part of speech is fish-wrap?
Fish-wrap is an adjective.

Words near fish-wrap in the dictionary

  1. fish-skins
  2. fish-tail
  3. fish-tails
  4. fish-trap
  5. fish-traps
  6. fish-wrap
  7. fish-wrapper
  8. fish-wrappers
  9. fish-wraps
  10. fishability
  11. fishable

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