fish wrapper

See also: fish-wrapper and fishwrapper

English

Alternative forms

• fish-wrapper, fishwrapper

Noun

fish wrapper (plural fish wrappers)

1. Synonym of fish wrap.
   • 1969 May 12, E. C. Stevens, “Looking glass by E. C. Stevens: The big questions”, in Lompoc Record, number 28, Lompoc, Calif., page 12, column 5:

     Using his arms as if he planned to en­circle a giant globe, Dad folded the lat­est edition of the local fish wrapper into something akin to its original shape. The final crease hid a portion of the headline blaring the news of Justice Abe Fortas’ $20,000 fee […]

   • 2006, Sandra Scoppettone, chapter 1, in Too Darn Hot: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published 2007, →ISBN, page 1:

     I’d had two murders since last spring, solved them both. The first one was prime and it got a lotta attention in the fish wrappers, so I had a bunch of clients for a while. Just cause people saw my name in the paper they figured I was the best […]

   • 2012, James Dodson, “The University of Golf”, in American Triumvirate: Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, and the Modern Age of Golf, New York, N.Y.: Alfred. A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 110:

     Late in the summer of 1936, flush with $75 from winning the West Virginia Open in a playoff, Sam Snead took the train to New York and briefly got lost in the crowds but managed his connection to Pennsylvania for the $5,000 Hershey Open. […] “I looked at Hershey as a chance to see the big guns I’d been reading about in the fish wrappers, to see if I stood any chance up against ’em.”