/ˈpapsakə/, U.S. /ˈpæpˌsækə/, South African English /ˈpʌpsʌkə/.papsakn.
/ˈpapsak/, U.S. /ˈpæpˌsæk/, South African English /ˈpʌpsʌk//ˈpapsakə/, U.S. /ˈpæpˌsækə/, South African English /ˈpʌpsʌkə/. South African (colloquial).
1. A plasticized foil bag in which cheap wine is sold.The sale of the papsak was banned in 2007.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > large for liquor > for wine
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1999 Fair Lady 8 Dec. 44 They normally earn enough money to buy a five-litre ‘papsak’—wine in a foil bag.
2002 www.iol.co.za (S. Afr.) 23 Aug. (online newspaper, accessed 12 Dec. 2014) ‘Papsakke’..could be barred from the shelves of bottle stores by the end of the year if authorities can prove their sale contributes to crime and social degradation.
2010 L. Beukes Zoo City xxx. 262 The public toilets where a group of obviously homeless people are huddled passing round a silver foil papsak of cheap wine.
2013 T. James Wines of New S. Afr. iv. 84 The banning of the notorious papsak (Afrikaans for ‘soft bag’), the metallized container in which the lowest quality of wine was sold, usually in a 5-liter size.
2. The rough wine sold in such a bag.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > class or grade of wine > [noun] > cheap or inferior wine
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2004 P. R. Harris et al. Managing Cultural Differences (ed. 6) xv. 580 Past Afrikaner practices of uprooting people, putting migrant laborers into hostels, and paying too many wages in papsak or wine.
2006 Daily Tel. 27 Mar. 17/2 Mrs Fiks drinks mainly at the weekend. She buys six litres of ‘papsak,’ rough wine, for £2.50 every Friday and another six litres on Saturday.
2008 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 26 Apr. 68 Papsak, now banned by the government, was cheap, sweet-tasting, low-grade ‘wine’;..one of the culprits that led to alcohol abuse and social disintegration in the townships.
2008 L. Beukes Moxyland 103 ‘I wasn't…’ she starts in a voice so little and pathetic, I have to lean in to hear her. Her breath is ripe with cheap papsak.
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General attributive, objective, and instrumental.
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2001 D. Hughes 200 Best Value Wines S. Afr. 24 The deplorable pap-sak wines.
2005 T. Eaton Twelve Rows Back 158 Alumni dug their heels into the fertile, papsak-strewn soil..and threatened to blockade the Stellenbosch Farmers' Winery.
2006 Mail & Guardian (S. Afr.) (Electronic ed.) 10 Mar. Clearly, the maps down at the Public Enterprises ministry are still the old ones that label the Western Cape as the ‘Rogue Secessionist Reactionary Papsak State’.
2008 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 26 Apr. 68 Rangaka was not a papsak drinker.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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