wraps

Noun

wrap (countable and uncountable, plural wraps)

1. Paper or sheeting that is wrapped around something to protect, contain, or conceal it.
   1. A large sheet of self-adhesive material applied over a vehicle's paintwork for decorative or protective purposes.
      • The media theorist Peter Lunenfeld[…] says illustrative art is often used to defang threatening technology. He compares the Waymo wraps to Google Doodles, which distract people while they are using a complex and opaque search engine algorithm that is “almost fully beyond our ken.”2025 December 9, Jori Finkel, “How Art Is Driving Waymo’s Feel-Good Branding”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC
2. A loose piece of women's clothing that one wraps around the body; a shawl or scarf.
3. (archaic, in plural) An outer garment worn as protection while riding, travelling etc.
   • ‘I see you have had our Lowick Cicero here,’ she said, seating herself comfortably, throwing back her wraps, and showing a thin but well-built figure.1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book I, chapter 6
4. A type of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
5. The completion of all or a major part of a performance.
   • But she could knock off right after the wrap, have dinner, and take a later flight.1994, Olivia Goldsmith, Fashionably Late

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