Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fish wrapper

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.15 in modern English

Syllables: fish wrap-per
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of fish wrap.

Example Sentences

"Using his arms as if he planned to encircle a giant globe, Dad folded the latest edition of the local fish wrapper into something akin to its original shape. The final crease hid a portion of the headline blaring the news of Justice Abe Fortas’ $20,000 fee […]"
"I’d had two murders since last spring, solved them both. The first one was prime and it got a lotta attention in the fish wrappers, so I had a bunch of clients for a while. Just cause people saw my name in the paper they figured I was the best […]"
"Late in the summer of 1936, flush with $75 from winning the West Virginia Open in a playoff, Sam Snead took the train to New York and briefly got lost in the crowds but managed his connection to Pennsylvania for the $5,000 Hershey Open. […] “I looked at Hershey as a chance to see the big guns I’d been reading about in the fish wrappers, to see if I stood any chance up against ’em.”"

Inflected Forms

fish wrappers (plural) fish-wrapper (alternative) fishwrapper (alternative)

Synonyms

fish wrap

Questions

What does fish wrapper mean?: Synonym of fish wrap.

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