Meaning of gumwrapper | Babel Free

Definitions

The wrapper from a gum piece.

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“I used to pretend to trip over a stray paperclip or gumwrapper just so that I could get a closer look at the floor.”

“[…] the inside of his lapels, columns of formulae written in lilliputian hand on gumwrappers he had pasted to the soles of his shoes.”

“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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