Shrink-wrap

Quick meaning: Shrink-wrap is a noun meaning A plastic film that is used to protect an item and which during application contracts so it tightly enclose it.

Meaning

A plastic film that is used to protect an item and which during application contracts so it tightly enclose it.

More Meanings

1. The wrapping around an item that has been shrink-wrapped.
2. To apply shrink-wrap to (an item).
3. (paleontology, derogatory) To reconstruct an extinct creature known from its fossils by depicting it with minimal soft tissue, yielding a thinner and less accurate representation of the creature.

Example Sentences

We spent all day shrink-wrapping boxes and now my feet hurt.

Please order another five rolls of shrink-wrap from the supply house.

Please don't damage the shrink-wrap when you are boxing up the items for shipment.

Such shrink-wrapped models gave generations of schoolchildren mental images of dinosaurs that are probably much uglier and scrawnier than the creatures were in reality.

Word Forms

• shrink-wraps
• shrink-wrapping
• shrink-wrapped

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wrappage, enwrapment, wrapping, swathing, wrap, enwrapping.

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