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fish wrapper

fish wrapper noun: synonym of fish wrap.

Noun

fish wrapper (plural fish wrappers)

  1. Synonym of fish wrap.
    • Using his arms as if he planned to en­circle a giant globe, Dad folded the lat­est edition of the local fish wrapper into something akin to its original shape. The final crease hid a portion of the headline blaring the news of Justice Abe Fortas’ $20,000 fee […]1969 May 12, E. C. Stevens, “Looking glass by E. C. Stevens: The big questions”, in Lompoc Record, number 28, Lompoc, Calif., page 12, column 5
    • I’d had two murders since last spring, solved them both. The first one was prime and it got a lotta attention in the fish wrappers, so I had a bunch of clients for a while. Just cause people saw my name in the paper they figured I was the best […]2006, Sandra Scoppettone, chapter 1, in Too Darn Hot: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published 2007, →ISBN, page 1
    Synonyms:
    fish wrap

Synonyms of fish wrapper

Forms of fish wrapper

pluralfish wrappers
alternative formfish-wrapper
alternative formfishwrapper

Questions about fish wrapper

What does fish wrapper mean?
Fish wrapper means synonym of fish wrap.
What part of speech is fish wrapper?
Fish wrapper is a noun.
What is the plural of fish wrapper?
The plural of fish wrapper is fish wrappers.

Words near fish wrapper in the dictionary

  1. fish warden
  2. fish water
  3. fish wheel
  4. fish wheels
  5. fish wrap
  6. fish wrapper
  7. fish wrappers
  8. fish wraps
  9. fish'd
  10. fish-and-chip
  11. fish-and-chipper

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