wrapping

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wrap/rap/

▶verb (wraps, wrapping, wrapped)

• 1 cover or enclose in paper or soft material.

  ■ arrange (paper or soft material) round something, as a covering or for warmth or protection.

  ■ place around so as to encircle.

• 2 Computing cause (a word or unit of text) to be carried over to a new line automatically.

  ■ (of a word or unit or text) be carried over in such a way.

• 3 informal finish filming or recording.

▶noun

• 1 a loose outer garment or piece of material.

  ■ [as modifier] (of a garment) worn wrapped round the body so that the edges overlap: a wrap skirt.

  ■ paper or material used for wrapping.

  ■ Brit. informal a small packet of a powdered illegal drug.

• 2 informal the end of a session of filming or recording.

• 3 a tortilla wrapped around a cold filling, eaten as a sandwich.

– phrases
under wraps kept secret.

– phrasal verbs
wrap up

• 1 (also wrap someone up) put on (or dress someone in) warm clothes.

• 2 Brit. informal be quiet; stop talking.

• 3 (wrapped up) engrossed or absorbed to the exclusion of other things.

wrap something up

• 1 complete or conclude a meeting or other process.

• 2 win a game or competition.

– derivatives
wrapping noun.

– origin ME: of unknown origin.