Green’s Dictionary of Slang

wrap n.2

1. (also wrap-up) a conclusion, something over and done with, finished [movie jargon wrap, the end of a day’s filming; wrap (it) up under wrap v.].

[US]G.L. Coon Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 254: New York is screaming for a wrap-up. It’ll be my ass if I don’t get it in.
[US]E. Thompson Garden of Sand (1981) 15: They ran a picture of the boy with a wrap-up on the story and an obit in that afternoon’s Beacon.
[US]D. Jenkins Semi-Tough 71: It’s a wrap on the squash [...] I won’t have to look at any more fuckin’ squash on the dinner table.
[US]C. Heath A-Team 2 (1984) 179: I want you back here for the wrap up.
[US]C. Stella Jimmy Bench-Press 181: This a wrap? [...] We done?
[US]A. Steinberg Running the Books 106: he had no patience with inmates who had ignored his first call of ‘That’s a wrap’.
[UK]G. Krauze What They Was 30: I murked this brer in the final [...] It was a wrap after that.
[US](con. 1962) J. Ellroy Enchanters 37: Jimmy’s pledged bonus bread, upon wrap-up.

2. (US campus) a girlfriend [? SE wrap around each other or ? SE rapture].

[US]P. Munro Sl. U. 208: Tom has had many wraps. He has never been single.

3. (drugs, also wrap-up) a small quantity of powder-based drugs, e.g. heroin, cocaine, folded into a small square of paper.

[US]A. Young Snakes (1971) 128: Inside the news wrap was a plastic bag and inside that a syringe.
[[UK]Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 1354/1: wrap-up [...] 2. ‘Brown paper packet containing cannabis’ (Home Office)].
[UK]N. Blincoe ‘Ardwick Green’ in Champion Disco Biscuits (1997) 12: He dug in the flat front pockets of his Farahs for the wrap.
[UK]Indep. 10 Jan. 6: For heroin it’s mainly £10 wraps, but it’s been £5 a wrap.
Ludacris ‘Screwed Up’ 🎵 Zig-Zags and golden wraps got my mind gone.
[UK]Camden New Journal (London) 13 Mar. 2: Undercover police described how they bought wraps of ‘white and brown.’.
[UK]G. Knight Hood Rat 123: He pays the guy in wraps.
[UK]J. Fagan Panopticon (2013) 44: He’s used a porno mag tae make his wraps. I’ve got a bit of some guy’s knob on mine, mid-cum-shot, gross.
[Ire]L. McInerney Glorious Heresies 100: Ryan produced a couple of wraps.
[UK]‘Aidan Truhen’ Price You Pay 19: [D]ropping wraps of the cocaine that I sell them through a variety of really clever cutouts.
[Scot]A. Parks Bobby March Will Live Forever 242: The dealer [...] handed him two wraps [i.e. of cocaine].
[Ire]L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 280: They gave me twenty-five wraps and told me if I didn’t have them sold by Sunday they’d break my arms.

In compounds

wrap-up (n.)

1. (US Und.) a gullible person who has been successfully tricked.

[US]Sun (N.Y.) 19 Feb. 28/1: After a ‘pushover’ has been sold he is a ‘wrap-up.’.

2. attrib. use of sense 1.

[UK]Guardian Media 31 Jan. 7: The wrap-up programme.

3. (US Und.) a promising deal or plan.

[US](con. 1944) H. Robbins A Stone for Danny Fisher 296: Tell him I got a hundred grand wrap-up.

4. (Irish) a parcel of scraps from the butcher.

[UK]L. Dunne Goodbye to The Hill (1966) 18: He always gave me a wrap up when I finished, which meant we had a good stew at home on a Sunday with all the bits of meat.

5. see main sense 1 above.

6. see main sense 3 above.