papershredder
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Rare form of paper shredder.
Example Sentences
- "On January 4, 1983, EPA brought papershredders in to destroy "excess copies" of the subpoenaed documents."
- "On this word, in the eternal race between photocopier and papershredder, the shredder has won out; the ban on its use at the center of power goes beyond "executive privilege" to the depths of primitive taboo."
- "Think of it like the "memory hole" in George Orwell's 1984, or a wastebasket with a papershredder in it — don't send any information here you expect to retrieve, /dev/null is often used conversationally, as in "Send all complaints to /dev/null.""
- "The basement looked like the aftermath of some monstrous experiment involving rabid squirrels, a papershredder, tequila and cottage cheese. Awful."
- "It has built into it a papershredder, tape recorder, telephone, TV set to monitor who's at my front and back doors, pencil sharpeners, night light, a radio ... a lot of things."