wrap (up) v.
1. (Aus.) to praise, to flatter.
Williamstown Chron. (Vic.) 15 Mar. 2/3: Well, Harry, I have ‘wrapped you up’— pardon the Bill Lang (slang). | ||
‘Whisper All Aussie Dict.’ in Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney) xliii 11/3: wrap up: To praise a person is to give him a wrap. If you can’t wrap a bloke don’t roast him. | ||
Sun (Sydney) 1 May 78: Last week I wrapped him over his display of whistle blowing in the Easts-Manly game. This was virtually the ‘kiss of death’. Anytime referees get a wrap they seem to get banished to the suburbs [GAW4]. |
2. (N.Z. prison) to convict on the basis of faked evidence.
Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 204/2: wrap up v. 1 to secure a conviction using fabricated evidence . |
3. (N.Z. prison) to murder.
Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 204/2: wrap up v. 2 (wrap (someone) up) to kill someone. |
4. (US) to wear a condom.
On the Bro’d 248: ‘I heard you’ve got like a shitload of kids [...] Why the shit didn’t you wrap it up?’. |