fish-wrapper

Noun

1. Alternative form of fish wrapper.
   • WHAT BROUGHT on my sudden adversion to anything scanty (in the old scanty town) was that re­cent letter by a well-meaning lady who objected to the brevity of costumes worn by our local high school majorettes....
   • When I arrived at a banquet to do a story about local volunteer firefighters, one of the volunteers said, “Come on in. So you work for the local fish-wrapper, huh?” - 2007, Entrepreneur Press, Roscoe Barnes III, Public...
   • One little news article—all right, three, but one of them’d been in the local fish-wrapper and shouldn’t count—and every bartender in the area knew about him and Ginny working together, because they were worse gossips...