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paper-thick

paper-thick adjective: paper-thin.

Adjective

paper-thick

  1. (dated, figuratively, uncommon) Paper-thin.
    • To make a key of a chamber-door, which to your sight hath its wards and rose-pipe but paper-thick, and yet at pleasure, in a minute of an hour, shall become a perfect pistol, capable to shoot through a breast-plate commonly of carbine-proof, with prime, powder, and firelock, undiscoverable to a...1813, Edward Somerset Marquis of Worcester, The Marquis of Worcester's Century of Inventions, page 20
    • Another woman was selling very sharp knives. Using one hand she sliced through a bit of tomato that already seemed paper-thick.1998, Eliza Hussman Gaines (publisher), Chattanooga Times

Words formed from paper-thick

Questions about paper-thick

What does paper-thick mean?
Paper-thick means paper-thin.
What part of speech is paper-thick?
Paper-thick is an adjective.

Words near paper-thick in the dictionary

  1. paper-money
  2. paper-plane
  3. paper-planes
  4. paper-pusher
  5. paper-pushers
  6. paper-thick
  7. paper-thickness
  8. paper-thin
  9. paper-thinness
  10. paper-trail
  11. paper-trails

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