Paperbacked

adj, verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of paperback form-of, participle, past
Adjective
  1. 1
    Having the sort of flexible binding characteristic of a paperback book. not-comparable

    "He has literary leanings, is reading Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, buying each volume as he can, in a paperbacked edition."

Adjective
  1. 1
    (of books) having a flexible binding wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
boundpaperbackpaperbackpaperbackpaperboundsoftcovered

Example

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"He has literary leanings, is reading Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, buying each volume as he can, in a paperbacked edition."

Etymology

From paper + backed.

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