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fish-wrapper en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of fish wrapper.
   alt of fish wrapper
   • WHAT BROUGHT on my sudden adversion to anything scanty (in the old scanty town) was that re­cent letter by a well-meaning lady who objected to the brevity of costumes worn by our local high school majorettes. “Indecency,” I believe, was one of her stronger words. And, by golly, I think she’s right. By 1922 stan­dards. Of course, in those days they didn’t advertise hinder-binders in the local fish-wrappers. 1965 November 5, Jim Gilmartin, “Along Marin’s Sports Trail: No Scanty Clause In Code Of Morals–Times Have Changed”, in Daily Independent Journal, volume 105, number 196, San Rafael, Calif., fourth section, page 39, column 1:
   • One little news article—all right, three, but one of them’d been in the local fish-wrapper and shouldn’t count—and every bartender in the area knew about him and Ginny working together, because they were worse gossips than a cul-de-sac of 1950s housewives. 2015, L.A. Kornetsky [pseudonym; Laura Anne Gilman], Clawed (A Gin & Tonic Mystery), New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, pages 85–86:
   • When I arrived at a banquet to do a story about local volunteer firefighters, one of the volunteers said, “Come on in. So you work for the local fish-wrapper, huh?” 2007, Entrepreneur Press, Roscoe Barnes III, Public Relations Made Easy, [Irvine, Calif.]: Entrepreneur Press, →ISBN, page 50:

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