bubble wrap

English

bubble wrap

Etymology

From the registered trademark of Sealed Air Corporation (US).

Noun

bubble wrap (countable and uncountable, plural bubble wraps)

1. Cushioning material consisting of small spheres of air trapped in plastic, sold on long rolls for tearing off, and used as packaging for fragile items.

Alternative forms

• bubblewrap
• bubble-wrap

Derived terms

• bubble-wrap (verbal form)

Translations

cushioning material

• Catalan: plàstic de bombolles m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 氣泡布／气泡布 (qìpàobù)

• Finnish: kuplamuovi (fi)
• French: papier bulle (fr) m
• Galician: plástico de burbullas m
• German: Luftpolsterfolie f
• Hungarian: buborékfólia (hu), buborékcsomagolás
• Indonesian: bungkus gelembung
• Italian: pluriball m, millebolle m or f
• Korean: 뽁뽁이 (ppokppogi)
• Polish: folia bąbelkowa (pl) f, folia pęcherzykowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: plástico-bolha m
• Spanish: plástico de burbujas m

Further reading

• bubble wrap on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• warp bubble