paper towel

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   a disposable towel made of absorbent paper

   Broadertowel

Questions about paper towel

What does paper towel mean?

paper towel means "a disposable towel made of absorbent paper".

Is paper towel a common word?

paper towel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.