Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Plural form of shredding.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word shreddings.

Examples

  • We're all going to hell in a handbasket, and we're concerned with IPods& Picture frames --- hey that, s it --- a handbasket made from the 'shreddings' of Wall Street's CEOs would have been an interesting & memorable gift!

    Boston.com Most Popular 2009

  • Since winning last season's Six Nations, France has gone into a tailspin, suffering 40-point shreddings in South Africa and Argentina last summer, followed by an autumn series that culminated in the heaviest home defeat in 105 years of French rugby, a 59-16 loss to Australia in Paris.

    France Being Clubbed to Death Jonathan Clegg 2011

  • Finally, beneath the Christmas cocktail napkins, a defunct Borders Gift Card, dead pens, and bamboo skewers, I discover my prize: a small plastic rectangle with a sliver of silver underneath latched to a tiny dome, the tell-tale shreddings of a previous Number Two still inside.

    Linda Flanagan: Parent Aptitude Test Linda Flanagan 2012

  • Timpone has already compiled a list of the buildings that will claim a share of one ton of recycled paper shreddings, provided by a materials company in Brooklyn.

    Planning a Parade in Secret Joshua Robinson 2012

  • The hamster population will thank you for the new shreddings, but might fear you more than normal because of the noises of the shreds.

    World Famous Design Junkies » 2009 » August 2009

  • I wanted to pass the book through my shredder, put the shreddings in a box, fill the box with cement, and toss the resulting block off the Golden Gate Bridge.

    The Oscar recall voting. Ann Althouse 2009

  • I wanted to pass the book through my shredder, put the shreddings in a box, fill the box with cement, and toss the resulting block off the Golden Gate Bridge.

    The Oscar recall voting. Ann Althouse 2009

  • There will be ceremonial shreddings and performances by Jai Rodriguez, Queer Eye's "culture vulture," whose purpose on the show is utterly baffling ….

    Eight Day Week 2004

  • Have we not the substantive _trash_ in the sense of shreddings, at p. 542. book iii. of a _Discourse of Forest Trees_, by John Evelyn?

    Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852

  • The New Yorker adds that the city's Downtown Alliance, "makes deliveries of paper shreddings to lower Broadway, in lieu of ticker tape, which has been obsolete since the sixties."

    News 2012

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.