fishwrapper

plural fishwrappers

1. alternativeAlternative form of fish wrapper.

   A well-arranged badger fight, particularly one that drew a raucous crowd, often rated a Page 1 story in the local fishwrapper.

   1987, Jack Fleming, “The Badger Fight”, in Copper Times: An Animated Chronicle of White Pine County, Nevada, Seattle, Wash.: Jack Fleming Publications, →ISBN, section I (Environment), page 4

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   I took a long, hot soak in the bathtub and spent another twenty minutes with the local fishwrapper while waiting for my duds to return. The Post-Intelligencer brought me up to date on witch burning as they practice it in the Northwest.

   1982 September, Gordon DeMarco, chapter 23, in The Canvas Prison, San Francisco, Calif.: Germinal Press, →ISBN, page 193

   Everett bowed, flexed his biceps, and when a familiar detective happened too close to collect the suspect’s firearm, he found himself suddenly swaddled in a big dinosaur hug, just as a photographer from the local fishwrapper prepared to take a shot.

   1995, W.E. Davis [Wally Davis], chapter 6, in Black Dragon (A Gil Beckman Mystery), Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, →ISBN, page 78