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paperbacked

paperbacked adjective: having the sort of flexible binding characteristic of a paperback book. Also the simple past and past participle of paperback.

Adjective

paperbacked (not comparable)

  1. Having the sort of flexible binding characteristic of a paperback book.
    • He has literary leanings, is reading Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, buying each volume as he can, in a paperbacked edition.1935 January 20, “Dickensian”, in New York Times, retrieved 14 Apr 2009

Also used as

paperbacked is also the simple past and past participle of paperback.

Synonyms of paperbacked

Origin of paperbacked

From paper + backed.

Questions about paperbacked

What does paperbacked mean?
Paperbacked means having the sort of flexible binding characteristic of a paperback book.
What part of speech is paperbacked?
Paperbacked is an adjective.

Words near paperbacked in the dictionary

  1. paper-weights
  2. paper-work
  3. paper-works
  4. paperazzi
  5. paperback
  6. paperbacked
  7. paperbacker
  8. paperbackers
  9. paperbacking
  10. paperbacks
  11. paperbag

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