fish wrap
A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose news reports are considered…A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose news reports are considered uninteresting or unreliable and whose editorial opinions are regarded with indifference or disapproval.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, derogatory, humorous, slang, uncountable)A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose news reports are considered uninteresting or unreliable and whose editorial opinions are regarded with indifference or disapproval.
Origin
From the traditional practice of wrapping takeaway fish and chips in sheets of newspaper.From the traditional practice of wrapping takeaway fish and chips in sheets of newspaper.
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Forms
plural: fish wrapsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.