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.].
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. | ||
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. | ||
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. | ||
A-Team 2 (1984) 179: I want you back here for the wrap up. | ||
Jimmy Bench-Press 181: This a wrap? [...] We done? | ||
Running the Books 106: he had no patience with inmates who had ignored his first call of ‘That’s a wrap’. | ||
What They Was 30: I murked this brer in the final [...] It was a wrap after that. | ||
(con. 1962) Enchanters 37: Jimmy’s pledged bonus bread, upon wrap-up. |
2. (US campus) a girlfriend [? SE wrap around each other or ? SE rapture].
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.
Snakes (1971) 128: Inside the news wrap was a plastic bag and inside that a syringe. | ||
[ | DSUE (8th edn) 1354/1: wrap-up [...] 2. ‘Brown paper packet containing cannabis’ (Home Office)]. | |
Disco Biscuits (1997) 12: He dug in the flat front pockets of his Farahs for the wrap. | ‘Ardwick Green’ in Champion||
Indep. 10 Jan. 6: For heroin it’s mainly £10 wraps, but it’s been £5 a wrap. | ||
🎵 Zig-Zags and golden wraps got my mind gone. | ‘Screwed Up’||
Camden New Journal (London) 13 Mar. 2: Undercover police described how they bought wraps of ‘white and brown.’. | ||
Hood Rat 123: He pays the guy in wraps. | ||
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. | ||
Glorious Heresies 100: Ryan produced a couple of wraps. | ||
Price You Pay 19: [D]ropping wraps of the cocaine that I sell them through a variety of really clever cutouts. | ||
Bobby March Will Live Forever 242: The dealer [...] handed him two wraps [i.e. of cocaine]. | ||
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
1. (US Und.) a gullible person who has been successfully tricked.
Sun (N.Y.) 19 Feb. 28/1: After a ‘pushover’ has been sold he is a ‘wrap-up.’. |
2. attrib. use of sense 1.
Guardian Media 31 Jan. 7: The wrap-up programme. |
3. (US Und.) a promising deal or plan.
(con. 1944) A Stone for Danny Fisher 296: Tell him I got a hundred grand wrap-up. |
4. (Irish) a parcel of scraps from the butcher.
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.