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Adjective: under wraps
  1. Kept secret
    "the plan was kept carefully under wraps"
Verb: wrap (wrapped,wrapping)  rap
  1. Arrange or fold as a cover or protection
    "Wrap the present"; "wrap the baby before taking her out";
    - wrap up
     
  2. Arrange or coil around
    "She wrapped her arms around the child";
    - wind[2], roll, twine
     
  3. Surround, cover or wrap completely
    "Fog wrapped the house";
    - envelop, enfold, enwrap, enclose
     
  4. Crash into so as to coil around
    "The teenager wrapped his car around the fire hydrant"
Noun: wrap  rap
  1. Cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person
    - wrapper
     
  2. A sandwich in which the filling is rolled up in a soft tortilla
     
  3. The covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped
    - wrapping, wrapper

See also: covert, wrap up

Type of: cloak, cover, covering, crash, displace, move, sandwich, sarnie [Brit, informal]

Antonym: unwrap

Encyclopedia: Wrap