shrink-wrap noun 2verb 2forms 3 noun2 •A plastic film that is used to protect an item and which during application contracts so it tightly enclose it.Please order another five rolls of shrink-wrap from the supply house. •The wrapping around an item that has been shrink-wrapped.Please don't damage the shrink-wrap when you are boxing up the items for shipment. verb2 •To apply shrink-wrap to (an item).We spent all day shrink-wrapping boxes and now my feet hurt. •(disapproving) To reconstruct an extinct creature known from its fossils by depicting it with minimal soft tissue, yielding a thinner and less accurate representation of the creature.Such shrink-wrapped models gave generations of schoolchildren mental images of dinosaurs that are probably much uglier and scrawnier than the creatures were in reality. formsshrink-wrapped · shrink-wrapping · shrink-wraps
