Meanings
nounpaperchase (plural paperchases)
plural paperchases · alternative paper chase · alternative paper-chase
- A cross-country race in which a trail of shredded paper marks the route.
- broadlyAn administration process involving cross-references between many documents; the following of a paper trail.
- figurativelyAny long line of white objects or things.
He lit his first cigarette, a Balkan and Turkish mixture made for him by Morlands of Grosvenor Street, and watched the small Waves lick the long seashore and the fishing-fleet from Dieppe string out towards the June heat-haze followed by a paper-chase of herring-gulls.
1953, Ian Fleming, “L’Ennemi Écoute”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 28
Origin
Translations
Finnish paperisota
- paperisotadealing with paperwork
French rallie-papier
- rallie-papiera cross-country race in which a trail of shredded paper marks the route
Irish lorg páipéir, páipéarachas
- lorg páipéira cross-country race in which a trail of shredded paper marks the route
- páipéarachasdealing with paperwork
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