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paperchase en · NOUN

Etymology

From paper + chase.

Meanings

  1. A cross-country race in which a trail of shredded paper marks the route.
  2. (broadly) An administration process involving cross-references between many documents; the following of a paper trail.
  3. (figuratively) Any long line of white objects or things.
    • He lit his first cigarette, a Balkan and Turkish mixture made for him by Morlands of Grosvenor Street, and watched the small Waves lick the long seashore and the fishing-fleet from Dieppe string out towards the June heat-haze followed by a paper-chase of herring-gulls. 1953, Ian Fleming, “L’Ennemi Écoute”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 28:

Forms

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paper-chase alternative lexicographic
paper chase alternative lexicographic
paperchases Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (4)

ga páipéarachas (dealing with paperwork) · fi paperisota (dealing with paperwork) · fr rallie-papier (a cross-country race in which a trail of shredded paper marks the route) · ga lorg páipéir (a cross-country race in which a trail of shredded paper marks the route)