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paperbacked en · ADJ

Etymology

From paper + backed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Having the sort of flexible binding characteristic of a paperback book.
    • He has literary leanings, is reading Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, buying each volume as he can, in a paperbacked edition. 1935 January 20, “Dickensian”, in New York Times, retrieved 14 Apr 2009: