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fish-wraps

fish-wraps is the plural of fish-wrap.

Meaning 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

Questions about fish-wraps

What is fish-wraps the plural of?
Fish-wraps is the plural of fish-wrap.

Words near fish-wraps in the dictionary

  1. fish-trap
  2. fish-traps
  3. fish-wrap
  4. fish-wrapper
  5. fish-wrappers
  6. fish-wraps
  7. fishability
  8. fishable
  9. fishapod
  10. fishapods
  11. Fishback

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