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blister-pack en · VERB

Etymology

Denominal verb of blister pack.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To package (something) by sealing it inside a blister pack.
   • Nowadays, you wouldn’t face a camera until Dr. Pitanguy had surgically Hoovered your love handles and blister-packed your major muscle groups. 1998 January 11, Guy Trebay, “Style: Overexposure”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015:
   • The lozenges will now have a longer shelf life, he said, after being blister-packed and hermetically sealed in a plastic case, which will be about 3/8-inch deeper than the tin. 1994 July 19, Glenn Collins, “New Looks for 2 Staples of the Medicine Cabinet”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2015:
   • Work assignments vary from the small and simple, such as collating wallpaper samples into a book or assembling ballpoint pens, to the large and complex – like blister-packing 4.5 million pencils. 1990 May 13, Penny Singer, “At 77, Finding Work for the Handicapped”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2010:

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