papershredder

English

Noun

papershredder (plural papershredders)

  1. Rare form of paper shredder
    • 1972, Epstein, Samuel S; Brown, Lester O; Pope, Carl, Hazardous waste in America, Sierra Club Books, page 252
      On January 4, 1983, EPA brought papershredders in to destroy "excess copies" of the subpoenaed documents.
    • 1986, Safire, William, Take my word for it : more on language, Times Book, page 323
      On this word, in the eternal race between photocopier and papershredder, the shredder has won out; the ban on its use at the center of power goes beyond "executive privilege" to the depths of primitive taboo.
    • 1994, Daniel P. Dern, The Internet guide for new users, McGraw-Hill, page 95
      Think of it like the "memory hole" in George Orwell's 1984, or a wastebasket with a papershredder in it — don't send any information here you expect to retrieve, /dev/null is often used conversationally, as in "Send all complaints to /dev/null."
    • 1996, Garvey, Michael, Confessions of a Catholic Worker, Templegate Pub., page 73
      The basement looked like the aftermath of some monstrous experiment involving rabid squirrels, a papershredder, tequila and cottage cheese. Awful.
    • 2000, Friedman, Lester D; Notbohm, Brent, Steven Spielberg : interviews, University Press of Mississippi, page 104
      It has built into it a papershredder, tape recorder, telephone, TV set to monitor who's at my front and back doors, pencil sharpeners, night light, a radio ... a lot of things.
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