paperback

noun
/ˈpeɪ.pə.bæk/UK/ˈpeɪ.pɚˌbæk/US

Etymology

From paper + back, a shortening of the older term paper-backed book.

  1. inherited from *bʰeg- — “to bend
  2. inherited from *baką
  3. inherited from *bak
  4. inherited from bæc
  5. inherited from bak
  6. compounded as paperback — “paper + back

Definitions

  1. A book with flexible binding.

  2. Having flexible binding.

  3. To issue or publish (a book) in a paperback edition.

    • Max was anticipating paperbacking The Bodley Head's books in house rather than licensing the paperback rights to a third party, like Penguin, which reduced his royalties and might eventually lose him authors to vertical publishers.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for paperback. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA