"fish wrap" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the traditional practice of wrapping takeaway fish and chips in sheets of newspaper.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fish wraps",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "fish wrap (countable and uncountable, plural fish wraps)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005 May 30, David Carr, “Bad Business For Magazines About Business”, in New York Times, retrieved 2020-12-02",
          "text": "Just as the sports pages are a first-read when the home team is hot and fish wrap when they are not, consumers tuned out when the market tanked, snapping off CNBC and leaving their business magazines in the to-do pile.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 June 9, Bill Virgin, “Will you read Microsoft's obit here?”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 2020-12-02",
          "text": "By now, one would expect those of us in the daily fish wrap business to be inured to repeated attempts to declare the newspaper dead and begin shoveling dirt on its face.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 June 28, Dave Feschuk, “Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl, and a big horse racing fan”, in The Star, retrieved 2020-12-02",
          "text": "Various British papers have claimed to know her taste in breakfast-table reading (The Racing Post, the English thoroughbred journal, is said to be among her daily fishwrap), and her stomach for trackside betting (she doesn't have one).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 February 22, Erik Wemple, “Bill O'Reilly calls ex-CBS News detractor a 'coward'”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2020-12-02",
          "text": "[T]he \"New York Times Paradox\" among right-leaning news outlets: When the New York Times reports something inconvenient, it's liberal fishwrap; when it reports something convenient, hey, it's the NEW YORK TIMES.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose news reports are considered uninteresting or unreliable and whose editorial opinions are regarded with indifference or disapproval."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "newspaper",
          "newspaper"
        ],
        [
          "magazine",
          "magazine"
        ],
        [
          "report",
          "report"
        ],
        [
          "uninteresting",
          "uninteresting"
        ],
        [
          "unreliable",
          "unreliable"
        ],
        [
          "editorial",
          "editorial"
        ],
        [
          "opinion",
          "opinion"
        ],
        [
          "indifference",
          "indifference"
        ],
        [
          "disapproval",
          "disapproval"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, derogatory or humorous) A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose news reports are considered uninteresting or unreliable and whose editorial opinions are regarded with indifference or disapproval."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "yellow journalism"
        },
        {
          "word": "yesterday's fish and chips"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fish wrapper"
        },
        {
          "word": "rag"
        },
        {
          "word": "fishwrap"
        },
        {
          "word": "fish-wrap"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "derogatory",
        "humorous",
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fish wrap"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the traditional practice of wrapping takeaway fish and chips in sheets of newspaper.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fish wraps",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "fish wrap (countable and uncountable, plural fish wraps)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "yellow journalism"
    },
    {
      "word": "yesterday's fish and chips"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English humorous terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005 May 30, David Carr, “Bad Business For Magazines About Business”, in New York Times, retrieved 2020-12-02",
          "text": "Just as the sports pages are a first-read when the home team is hot and fish wrap when they are not, consumers tuned out when the market tanked, snapping off CNBC and leaving their business magazines in the to-do pile.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 June 9, Bill Virgin, “Will you read Microsoft's obit here?”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 2020-12-02",
          "text": "By now, one would expect those of us in the daily fish wrap business to be inured to repeated attempts to declare the newspaper dead and begin shoveling dirt on its face.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 June 28, Dave Feschuk, “Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl, and a big horse racing fan”, in The Star, retrieved 2020-12-02",
          "text": "Various British papers have claimed to know her taste in breakfast-table reading (The Racing Post, the English thoroughbred journal, is said to be among her daily fishwrap), and her stomach for trackside betting (she doesn't have one).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 February 22, Erik Wemple, “Bill O'Reilly calls ex-CBS News detractor a 'coward'”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2020-12-02",
          "text": "[T]he \"New York Times Paradox\" among right-leaning news outlets: When the New York Times reports something inconvenient, it's liberal fishwrap; when it reports something convenient, hey, it's the NEW YORK TIMES.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose news reports are considered uninteresting or unreliable and whose editorial opinions are regarded with indifference or disapproval."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "newspaper",
          "newspaper"
        ],
        [
          "magazine",
          "magazine"
        ],
        [
          "report",
          "report"
        ],
        [
          "uninteresting",
          "uninteresting"
        ],
        [
          "unreliable",
          "unreliable"
        ],
        [
          "editorial",
          "editorial"
        ],
        [
          "opinion",
          "opinion"
        ],
        [
          "indifference",
          "indifference"
        ],
        [
          "disapproval",
          "disapproval"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, derogatory or humorous) A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose news reports are considered uninteresting or unreliable and whose editorial opinions are regarded with indifference or disapproval."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "derogatory",
        "humorous",
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "fish wrapper"
    },
    {
      "word": "rag"
    },
    {
      "word": "fishwrap"
    },
    {
      "word": "fish-wrap"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fish wrap"
}