plastic wrap

1. 1.

   wrapping consisting of a very thin transparent sheet of plastic

   Broaderwrapping

   Narrowercellophanecling film

Questions about plastic wrap

What does plastic wrap mean?

plastic wrap means "wrapping consisting of a very thin transparent sheet of plastic".

Is plastic wrap a common word?

plastic wrap 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.