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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 case
  2. paper cases
  3. paper ceiling
  4. paper chain
  5. paper chains
  6. paper chase
  7. paper chases
  8. paper chromatogram
  9. paper chromatograms
  10. paper chromatography
  11. paper cigar

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