Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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.].

1961		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.
1970		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.
1972		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.
1983		C. Heath A-Team 2 (1984) 179: I want you back here for the wrap up.
2002		C. Stella Jimmy Bench-Press 181: This a wrap? [...] We done?
2010		A. Steinberg Running the Books 106: he had no patience with inmates who had ignored his first call of ‘That’s a wrap’.
2020		G. Krauze What They Was 30: I murked this brer in the final [...] It was a wrap after that.
2023		(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].

1989

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.

1970		A. Young Snakes (1971) 128: Inside the news wrap was a plastic bag and inside that a syringe.
[1984		Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 1354/1: wrap-up [...] 2. ‘Brown paper packet containing cannabis’ (Home Office)].
1996		N. Blincoe ‘Ardwick Green’ in Champion Disco Biscuits (1997) 12: He dug in the flat front pockets of his Farahs for the wrap.
2000		Indep. 10 Jan. 6: For heroin it’s mainly £10 wraps, but it’s been £5 a wrap.
2003		Ludacris ‘Screwed Up’ 🎵 Zig-Zags and golden wraps got my mind gone.
2008		Camden New Journal (London) 13 Mar. 2: Undercover police described how they bought wraps of ‘white and brown.’.
2011		G. Knight Hood Rat 123: He pays the guy in wraps.
2012		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.
2015		L. McInerney Glorious Heresies 100: Ryan produced a couple of wraps.
2018		‘Aidan Truhen’ Price You Pay 19: [D]ropping wraps of the cocaine that I sell them through a variety of really clever cutouts.
2021		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.