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paper-chase

paper-chase is the alternative spelling of paperchase.

Meaning of paperchase

Noun

paperchase (plural paperchases)

  1. A cross-country race in which a trail of shredded paper marks the route.
  2. (broadly) An administration process involving cross-references between many documents; the following of a paper trail.
  3. (figuratively) Any long line of white objects or things.
    • He lit his first cigarette, a Balkan and Turkish mixture made for him by Morlands of Grosvenor Street, and watched the small Waves lick the long seashore and the fishing-fleet from Dieppe string out towards the June heat-haze followed by a paper-chase of herring-gulls.1953, Ian Fleming, “L’Ennemi Écoute”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 28

Forms of paper-chase

pluralpaper-chases

Questions about paper-chase

What is paper-chase the alternative spelling of?
Paper-chase is the alternative spelling of paperchase.

Words near paper-chase in the dictionary

  1. paper yabbers
  2. paper-bag
  3. paper-bags
  4. paper-based
  5. paper-bound
  6. paper-chase
  7. paper-chases
  8. paper-clay
  9. paper-cloth
  10. paper-faced
  11. paper-folder

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