paper wall

noun

A thin wall, especially if poorly soundproof.

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Meanings

nounpaper wall (plural paper walls)

plural paper walls

  1. simileA thin wall, especially if poorly soundproof.

    They can even hear me yawn, what with these paper walls.

    2013 October 18, Marcia Munson, Judith Stelboum, The Lesbian Polyamory Reader: Open Relationships, Non-Monogamy, and Casual Sex, Routledge, →ISBN
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see paper, wall.
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