英和和英

名詞

gumwrapper (plural gumwrappers)

1. The wrapper from a gum piece.
   • 1989, Lieberman, Herbert H., Shadow dancers : a novel, Little, Brown, page 4

     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.

   • 1996, Congress, Rising scourge of methamphetamine in America, U.S. G.P.O., page 38

     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.

   • 1985, Susan E. Browne, With the power of each breath, Cleis Press, page 115

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

   • 1986, Unger, Douglas, El Yanqui, Harper & Row, page 69

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

   • 1986, Maté, Ferenc, Shipshape : the art of sailboat maintenance, David & Charles, page 278

     No buts and no matches and no gumwrappers and no gum, and no paper towels and no dental floss and no hair!