"papershredder" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: papershredders [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} papershredder (plural papershredders)
  1. (rare) Alternative form of paper shredder Tags: alt-of, alternative, rare Alternative form of: paper shredder
    Sense id: en-papershredder-en-noun-7sptuGBW Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1994, Daniel P. Dern, The Internet guide for new users, McGraw-Hill, page 95",
          "text": "Think of it like the \"memory hole\" in George Orwell's 1984, or a wastebasket with a papershredder in it — don't send any information here you expect to retrieve, /dev/null is often used conversationally, as in \"Send all complaints to /dev/null.\""
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Safire, William, Take my word for it : more on language, Times Book, page 323",
          "text": "On this word, in the eternal race between photocopier and papershredder, the shredder has won out; the ban on its use at the center of power goes beyond \"executive privilege\" to the depths of primitive taboo."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Friedman, Lester D; Notbohm, Brent, Steven Spielberg : interviews, University Press of Mississippi, page 104",
          "text": "It has built into it a papershredder, tape recorder, telephone, TV set to monitor who's at my front and back doors, pencil sharpeners, night light, a radio ... a lot of things."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Garvey, Michael, Confessions of a Catholic Worker, Templegate Pub., page 73",
          "text": "The basement looked like the aftermath of some monstrous experiment involving rabid squirrels, a papershredder, tequila and cottage cheese. Awful."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1972, Epstein, Samuel S; Brown, Lester O; Pope, Carl, Hazardous waste in America, Sierra Club Books, page 252",
          "text": "On January 4, 1983, EPA brought papershredders in to destroy \"excess copies\" of the subpoenaed documents."
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        },
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