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butcher paper

American  

noun

  1. heavy, moisture-resistant paper, as used for wrapping meat.


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Kwee told me I must, if nothing else, procure a roll of butcher paper.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 7, 2025

On a roll of butcher paper, Salans had scrawled a question in bright blue marker: “Where do we go from here?”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 3, 2022

The novel thus packages its dilemma in tidy butcher paper: Is our supposed love of animals, and occasionally theirs of us, a calculated transaction?

From New York Times Aug. 4, 2020

The spectacle, tightly bound in butcher paper and tape to keep the lot together, was that seductive.

From Washington Post May 18, 2020

She carried an Okeh record under her arm and a half pound of stewmeat wrapped in pink butcher paper in her hand although the sun is too hot to linger in the streets with meat.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

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