Bubble wrap is plastic sheeting full of air pockets, used for protection. Wrap it in bubble wrap.
It was invented as wallpaper and failed completely before anybody thought of packing. Bubble wrap works bubbles inward against the object, which almost everybody gets wrong.
1nounbubble wrapPlastic sheeting full of air pockets, used for protection.
“Three metres of bubble wrap kept every glass intact.”
bubble wrap is a material.
A trademark of the Sealed Air Corporation, invented in 1957 as a textured wallpaper.
From the registered trademark of Sealed Air Corporation (US).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Containers & Packaging