Usually means: Tight plastic sealing for protection.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word shrink-wrap:

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  1. shrink-wrap: Merriam-Webster
  2. shrink-wrap: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shrink-wrap: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shrink-wrap, shrink-wrap: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shrink-wrap: Vocabulary.com
  6. shrink-wrap: Wordnik
  7. shrink-wrap: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. shrink-wrap: Wiktionary
  9. shrink-wrap: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. shrink-wrap: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. shrink-wrap: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. shrink-wrap: Dictionary.com
  13. Shrink-wrap: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. shrink-wrap: FreeDictionary.org
  15. shrink-wrap: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. shrink-wrap: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shrink-wrap: Netlingo

(Note: See shrink-wrapped as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (shrink-wrap)

noun:  A plastic film that is used to protect an item and which during application contracts so it tightly enclose it.
noun:  The wrapping around an item that has been shrink-wrapped.
verb:  To apply shrink-wrap to (an item).
verb:  (paleontology) To reconstruct an extinct creature known from its fossils by depicting it with minimal soft tissue, this results in a thinner and less accurate representation of the creature.

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