candywrapper

English

Noun

candywrapper (plural candywrappers)

1. Alternative form of candy wrapper
   • 1990, Morgan, Seth, Homeboy, Random House, page 262

     The desperate kite was penciled on a candywrapper, folded three times and tucked into a triangle.

   • 1965, Robinson, Halbert B, The mentally retarded child : a psychological approach, McGraw-Hill, page 38

     he intellectual capacities required of a farmhand or a candywrapper might be well within the limits of this subnormal group, but the farm population is rapidly shrinking, and automation is taking over many of the simpler jobs previously performed in industrial centers by human beings.

   • 1982, Gardner, John, Mickelsson's ghosts : a novel, Knopf, page 527

     And behold, I saw an old crooked man at my left who was picking up cigarette butts and candywrapper papers with a pointed stick, putting them in a brown plastic garbage bag, and I sald, knowing this man would by profession be familiar with such things, “Old man, tell me, who are these?” And he said, “My son, those are the People Who Believe.” And he smiled, showing square yellow teeth.

   • 1993, Slade, Michael, Headhunter, New English Library, page 199

     Tonight the grounds were aromatic with the smell of decaying ~ autumn leaves, and as she walked toward the groundkeeper’s house those same leaves crunched beneath her feet like cellophane candywrappers.

   • 1964, Brown, Leonard, A Quarto of Modern Literature, Charles Scribner's Sons, page 554

     Across the asphalt that was sufficiently semifluid to receive and embalm millions of starsharp stones and bravely gay candywrappers a drugstore twinkled artificial enticement.