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wrap-up

[rap-uhp]

noun

a final report or summary: a wrap-up of the evening news.

the conclusion or final result: the wrap-up of the election campaign.

Australian Slang. an enthusiastic recommendation or flattering account.

Origin:
1950–55; noun use of verb phrase wrap up

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Wrap-up is always a great word to know.

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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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"The first duty of a lecturer—to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantlepiece for ever."

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