fish wrap
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.12 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose news reports are considered uninteresting or unreliable and whose editorial opinions are regarded with indifference or disapproval.
Countable; Derogatory; Humorous; Slang; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Just as the sports pages are a first-read when the home team is hot and fish wrap when they are not, consumers tuned out when the market tanked, snapping off CNBC and leaving their business magazines in the to-do pile."
- "By now, one would expect those of us in the daily fish wrap business to be inured to repeated attempts to declare the newspaper dead and begin shoveling dirt on its face."
- "Various British papers have claimed to know her taste in breakfast-table reading (The Racing Post, the English thoroughbred journal, is said to be among her daily fishwrap), and her stomach for trackside betting (she doesn't have one)."
- "[T]he "New York Times Paradox" among right-leaning news outlets: When the New York Times reports something inconvenient, it's liberal fishwrap; when it reports something convenient, hey, it's the NEW YORK TIMES."