"gumwrapper" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: gumwrappers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} gumwrapper (plural gumwrappers)
  1. The wrapper from a gum piece.
    Sense id: en-gumwrapper-en-noun-1ZUpfwWY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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        {
          "ref": "1989, Lieberman, Herbert H., Shadow dancers : a novel, Little, Brown, page 4",
          "text": "She was upside down, her hair fanned out and trailing in a puddle about a foot deep. Leaves and gumwrappers and ice cream sticks skimmed across the surface and lodged in the strands of slowly undulating hair."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Congress, Rising scourge of methamphetamine in America, U.S. G.P.O., page 38",
          "text": "It's nothing more than a gumwrapper looking piece of foil with red phosphorous, potassium chloride and metal shavings or BB's, whichever the producer would like to use."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985, Susan E. Browne, With the power of each breath, Cleis Press, page 115",
          "text": "I used to pretend to trip over a stray paperclip or gumwrapper just so that I could get a closer look at the floor."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Unger, Douglas, El Yanqui, Harper & Row, page 69",
          "text": "[…] the inside of his lapels, columns of formulae written in lilliputian hand on gumwrappers he had pasted to the soles of his shoes."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Maté, Ferenc, Shipshape : the art of sailboat maintenance, David & Charles, page 278",
          "text": "No buts and no matches and no gumwrappers and no gum, and no paper towels and no dental floss and no hair!"
        }
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          "ref": "1989, Lieberman, Herbert H., Shadow dancers : a novel, Little, Brown, page 4",
          "text": "She was upside down, her hair fanned out and trailing in a puddle about a foot deep. Leaves and gumwrappers and ice cream sticks skimmed across the surface and lodged in the strands of slowly undulating hair."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Congress, Rising scourge of methamphetamine in America, U.S. G.P.O., page 38",
          "text": "It's nothing more than a gumwrapper looking piece of foil with red phosphorous, potassium chloride and metal shavings or BB's, whichever the producer would like to use."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985, Susan E. Browne, With the power of each breath, Cleis Press, page 115",
          "text": "I used to pretend to trip over a stray paperclip or gumwrapper just so that I could get a closer look at the floor."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Unger, Douglas, El Yanqui, Harper & Row, page 69",
          "text": "[…] the inside of his lapels, columns of formulae written in lilliputian hand on gumwrappers he had pasted to the soles of his shoes."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Maté, Ferenc, Shipshape : the art of sailboat maintenance, David & Charles, page 278",
          "text": "No buts and no matches and no gumwrappers and no gum, and no paper towels and no dental floss and no hair!"
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